Re: Moving main loop to GLib.

[Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds kjahds com>]

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Michael K. Johnson writes:
>  > Ugh...  Imposing an abstraction like this on Unix source would suck.
>  > People shy away from FILE*, why use some weird GIOChannel if they
>  > won't even use FILE*'s?
> 
> If people use GLib and GDK they already have made a choice to write
> for portability, IMHO. What is GDK originally other that a thin veneer
> over Xlib? Why do you think GLib has stuff like g_get_home_dir(),
> g_get_current_dir(), when Unix has getenv("HOME"), getcwd().

stdio() is already (extremely) portable, however, and it can limit
compatability with other libraries if it is not used.

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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)