Re: GNOME::Selector

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On 01 Jun 2001 17:21:02 +0200, Martin Baulig wrote:
> Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:
> 
> > I think properties are well suited for the above case. So I do not understand
> > why you need such a complex asynchronous interface, especially when we can
> > implement the whole thing with our existing framework. Please can we try to
> > find all advantages of both approaches:
> 
> Well, we can implement this with properties - but the async stuff is required
> and needs to stay, so we won't gain much with this - but we'd loose the chance
> to provide a custom filter later on.

what is the async stuff required for?

> And as I already said, you should not use this CORBA interface directly but
> use the GnomeSelectorClient C API - so you won't even see this interface.

...which makes this yet more API which needs to be wrapped, documented,
ported to new things, backwards supported...

jacob
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