Re: Lacking of a ref-counted string.

["Ali Sabil" <ali sabil gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:10 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> Dear Devs,
>
> Is there any particular reason that GLib doesn't provide a ref-counted
> string and a ref-counted array type? Lacking them in GLib makes the VALA
> language a real pain.

You could just wrap simple GObjects around GString and GPtrArray.

Wouldn't that be overkill ? do we need signals and properties for strings and arrays ? maybe GLib/GObject should have something like GstMiniObject that only provides reference counting and no signals/properties ?