Re: [gnome-db]GLib 2.0 work

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> There is some work to make libgda compile and work with GLib 2.0 which
> is not very difficult to do.
> 
> So, is there some volunteer to work on this?:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57887
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57888
> 
> This will allow us to use the same source code for both GLib 1.2 and
> 2.0, so that we can start shipping (when needed) versions based only on
> GLib 2.0.


Ugh.  This is always going to be a pain to maintain, especially as you
start using more and more features of glib-2.0.  gnome-vfs tried this
for a while, and it was painful to deal with.  A better approach would
be to branch in CVS when you're ready to move over.

Just my $0.02,
-Jonathan