[gnome-db] Re: Transformation functions from G_TYPE_STRING to G_TYPE_any

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Daniel Espinosa wrote:

> I'm working on add functions to GLib to transform a STRING to GLib's types;
> now only exists a way to transform to a STRING but not from a STRING; to do

transformations to string are more of a convenience/debugging feature 
libgobject offers.

> so I need to find the value_transform_int_string function (and the others in
> gvaluetransform.c file) in order to write the functions to transform from
> STRING some types.
>
> GDA, has some code to transform them, but may is better to have them in
> GLib; unless you consider that is better that library must register his own
> custom transformation functions.
>
> I had filed a bug in:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342358

i don't think having these in glib makes much sense, as outlined in:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-May/msg00258.html
reflected in the bug report.

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ciaoTJ