Re: Reading a file???

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 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

Well; maybe its all FUD.

        I can understand your objection. We've been
working 2 years on the same god damn product and
we're still running the "old-generation" software
on our apliences (geez thats DOS/DJGPP custom kernel
and lots more depricated crap).


Here's a short description of what we're 
working with (the context is a jukebox):

We develop a system with 12 daemon applications
(not including the standard kernel threads etc..)
2 of which are GUI applications (both of which
make extensive use of GtkClists) all of wich make
extensive use of glib in general.

one of theese daemons loads images on remote X servers
using my own enhanced version of gdk-pixbuf-xlib (found
in contrib/)


libraries:
aside from that; we have our own extra widget kit (standard
album jacket buttons with embedded artist name +
keyboards for touchscreens etc..), our glade extension
to load our widgets with xml layouts; an sql database wrapper
which makes extensive use of GScanner et al.




        I think we would have to duplicate/keep the
CList stuff; we'd have to switch `gtk' for `g' in
all of our GObject constructs/signal handlers etc; 
and I don't know how many behavior changes and 
unexpected intricacies we would have to face.

I would rather be working with 2.2. I remember
that a new feature was `one app; multiple Xservers'.
(BTW is this feature `clean' ? when closing a
`Display' do all associated resources get freed ?)

So; please tell me if I'm speaking FUD or if 
it would probably take a cross-over period of about a
month.

Sincerly,
                -Tristan

> > 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