Re: [gnome-db]GLib 2.0 work

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 22 Jul 2001 18:04:51 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 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.
> 
yes, you're right. I've thought about this, but I was proposing this solution
just as a temporary measure, since, as soon as GLib 2.0 is the
"official" one, we'll replace all this.

But well, I think you're right, so I'll take your advice.

cheers

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