Re: GVariant for prez!

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2009/4/8 Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>:
> Hello Everyone!
>
> I'm proposing GVariant for inclusion in glib this cycle.

Nice! At last! All hail to desrt :-D

> I've created a 'gvariant' branch of glib and pushed it to the official
> repository.
>
> For those who don't know what GVariant is, please see the announcement email
> here:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2009-March/msg00103.html
>
>
>
> GVariant is currently used by GBus and dconf/GSettings.  It has general
> usefulness to anyone who wants to do any of the following things:
>
>  - send structured data over network sockets
>
>  - save structured data to disk
>
>  - efficiently deserialise this data (particularly out of mmaped
>    regions; only as much is faulted in as is needed; this makes it
>    great for icon/schema/font/etc type cache files)
>
>  - do anything with dbus, really.
>
> The type system, of course, is that of DBus.
>
> I love your feedback.  Please give it all to me.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> ps: sorry for the delay :)
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz