Re: how to submit a feature request for glib? oversight?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Peter Jay Salzman <p dirac org> writes:

> hi there,
>
> i think it would be much more useful for the functions
>
> g_string_sprintf()
> g_string_sprintfa()
>
> to return the number of characters written to the target GString.   they
> currently return void.   this would also have the happy consequence of
> conforming to glibc's snprintf.
>
> is there a reason i'm not thinking of why they don't do this?  seems like
> very useful info to return.
>
> while we're at it, i find it curious that
>
> g_string_append()
> g_string_append_c()
>
> return the GString we pass to the function.  it seems like returning the
> number of characters written to the GString would be more useful too.
>
> could this possibly be an oversight by the library designers?

See the glib README file for information about bugs/feature
requests/patches. (Short answer, bugzilla.gnome.org.)

[ The reason g_string_append() returns the string is, supposedly so you can
  do something like:

    string = g_string_append (g_string_new ("me "), "too");

  Never seen much point in that myself. ]

Regards,
                                        Owen