Re: giomm in svn

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 21:04 +0200, Marko Anastasov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to let you know that I imported the skeleton source of
> giomm in GNOME SVN. The module can be checked out with:
> 
> svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnomemm/giomm/trunk giomm
> 
> giomm will wrap gio-standalone [1], a library that is still
> under development, yet "close to a final form" [2]. It is
> a GObject-based, architecture-independent library for file
> i/o that is targeted for inclusion in glib. It will replace
> gnome-vfs with a saner API and some additional features.
> For an overview, see the author's GUADEC presentation slides [3].
> 
> Like gio-standalone [4], giomm will be a separate library for
> a while and eventually be merged in glibmm.
> 
> ///

Great. I'll take a look at this later.

> On the cosmetical side, the library namespace at the momemnt
> is Gio. It would be best for it to be Glib, as it will be later,
> and I tried a bit today to try to modify generate_wrap_init.pl
> to somehow allow just wrap_init() to be in Gio, and all the rest
> in Glib, but couldn't make it. Perhaps I'll try something else
> again later.

I wouldn't worry too much about that now. It will be easy to
search/replace Gio:: with Glib:: later. Let's keep it simple.

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