Re: Glib::IO

[Jeremy Volkening <jdv base2bio com>]

Max,

> Disadvantages which I see with the overrides are:
> Mainly that you can save and read only documents with the encoding of
> utf-8.

I don't think you can make any assumptions about the encoding of the
underlying file, or even that is is text rather than a binary format.
I agree with you that the byte array should be converted into a byte
string but beyond that the user needs to decide what to do with it
based on the file type expected by their application.

> I would love to help to work on improving the implementation of the
> Gio API in Perl as far as I can with my little skills.

I went ahead and forked the Glib::IO codebase here:

https://github.com/jvolkening/perl-Glib-IO

I realize we can't send pull requests to the "official" github repo
since it's only a mirrored copy of the GNOME repo, but the fork provides
a place to collaborate prior to sending the patches upstream. If you'd
like I can give you commit permissions. My work on
it will probably be sporadic.

Regards,
Jeremy