Re: GtkBuilder bug?

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

On Feb 27, 2008, at 15:32 , Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:

> On 27/02/2008, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 cornell edu> wrote:
> Pavel Syomin wrote:
> > Hi, all!
> >
> > I had been experimenting with GtkBuilder using Gtk+ 2.12.5 from  
> Fedora
> > 8. I have found, that if there is reference to unknown type in UI- 
> file,
> > then application crashes. Is it a GtkBuilder bug?
> >
> > Test program:
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > Gtk-ERROR **: Invalid type: Unknown
> > aborting...
> > Segmentation fault
>
>
> I'm guessing that's intentional.  g_error() causes the program to  
> abort,
> so it looks like whoever did the parsing code in GtkBuilder  
> intended the
> app to abort if the UI description has errors.
>
> It's debatable as to whether or not this is the correct behavior, but
> one could argue that, if your UI is corrupt, you can't really rely on
> your program to work properly, and it could also cause harm to user  
> data
> -- basically you have no idea what will happen and your program's
> behavior is undefined.
>
> It could also be seen as a way to increase the quality of  
> GtkBuilder UI
> description files that end up out in the wild.  App developers will  
> do a
> much better job of making sure their UI files are correct if incorrect
> files cause the app to abort.
>
>
> Hmmm. This sounds like a very narrow minded decision to me.


Or a regular bug. Don't forget how open source works: release, testing,
bug fixing.

Yevgen