Re: Reading a file???

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 13:00, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> I wish I could. It would cost us 2 weeks
> in development for 2 of our developers; not to mention
> the time it would take for the CM to arrange
> our compile environment or QC. For 2 years at least
> we've been looking for the time to pass-over our
> code and make it solid. (faetures features features....)
>
>
> Again Owen; I wish I could.

Well, I can't say I understand... unless you were heavily
using a few odd corners or really in-development new
features of GLib, there should be virtually no incompatibility
between 1.3.5 and now.

But, hey, if you feel up to maintaining your own fork of 
obsolete GLib, more power to you...

Regards,
                                     Owen


> Owen Taylor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:39, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > > > How about using the glib function g_file_get_contents()?
> > >
> > > I'm using 1.3.5 and I had to write my own version
> > > of g_file_get_contents() due to a "file leek"
> > >
> > > I dont know if the patch is in or if its fixed;
> > > If not let me know and I'll send the patch upstream.
> >
> > OK, this isn't particularly helpful, but, I can't
> > resist:
> >
> >  WHY THE HECK ARE YOU USING GLib-1.3.5????
> >
> > Please upgrade to a stable, current, released,
> > bug fixed version.
> >
> > There have been two major stable releases, 2 years of
> > development, and 5000 lines of ChangeLog entries since
> > that development snapshot.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >                                 Owen