Re: GConverter commited

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 11/24/2009 03:29 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 17:22 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:52 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > On 11/23/2009 10:30 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Please check out this API and give comments on it. I think its pretty
> > > > good, as we've talked about this a bit on irc over the years, but
> > > > feedback is always good.
> > >
> > > Starting to look into them.  Any reason g_convert_get_type() is not defined
> > > using G_DEFINE_* macros?
> >
> > cutnpasteitis maybe?
>
> No, its because there is no macro to do this for interfaces:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320482
>
> There are one year old patches in the bug report that look very good to
> me, and has had some feedback from timj, including this:
>
> "i think we can add this to gtype.h as is, unless
> more issues are being brought up "
>
> So maybe we should just commit this?

Right, that's what I vaguely remembered...  See also:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449565

Lets get this committed please...  The sooner we commit them, the sooner we 
can all switch to thread-safe type registration...

behdad