Re: GObject-Introspection 0.5.0

[Johan Dahlin <johan gnome org>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:09 -0500, Mike Kestner wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 17:39 +0200, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> > > Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> > > > Johan Dahlin wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > >  > I'm leaning towards using the "ownership" terminology instead of "transfer". 
> > > > > typedef enum {
> > > > >    GI_OWNERSHIP_CALLER, /* caller owns it, caller should free it after use */
> > > > >    GI_OWNERSHIP_CALLEE  /* callee owns it, caller should leave it as it is */
> > > > > } GITypeOwnership;
> > > > Just as a nitpick, these two names look very similar and quite confusing
> > > > for non-native English speakers.  Maybe you could come up with something
> > > > different, especially in place of 'callee'?
> > > Agreed, I'm open to suggestions.
> > > caller/subroutine ?
> > In GAPI, we have two ownership attributes on list elements: owned and
> > elements_owned.
>
> or nothing is owned. Yes, we have these 3 in gtkmm too. Johan's system
> offers a fourth combination, list-not-owned, element-owned, so-far not
> seen in the wild), but it seems fine.

True, but most importantly: it supports lists of lists.

Johan