Re: Ropes and String Formatting

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 22:21 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 06:54 -0400, Russell Harmon wrote:
> > I'm looking to implement two things which I think would be quite
> > useful if included in glib.
> > 
> > 
> > - Ropes [1]
> 
> The basic rule is - something might go in GLib if used by 2 (preferably
> 3-4 or more) components.

Yes, glib is not a general set of abstract data types, it just has a few
very often used ones. We don't add new ADTs just because they look like
they could be useful for something. So, unless you have say Gtk+, glib
internals or multiple apps depending on some ADT its unlikely to go into
glib.