Re: GVariant for prez!

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca> wrote:
> Hi David
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> David Zeuthen wrote:
>>
>>  - GVariant brings in a completely new type system
>
> That's not entirely true.  The DBus type system is being used and loved by
> many people already and GVariant is using that type system.  GVariant merely
> brings this type system into glib.
>

What David is saying (and I'm sure you understood) is that glib
already comes with a type system, namely GType. Adding a completely
separate one next to it in the same module is problematic, even if it
is a well-loved one.