Re: What does the file extension ".hg" mean?

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 24/06/2013 08:45, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> The upstream library updates are fairly
> convoluted and painful at present -- but that's in part precisely because
> various people have hand-rolled things in various different languages at
> different times, which is an excellent example of how "flexibility" leads to
> added complexity).

Not at all, Gavin.  It's an example of how inflexible tools and 'bolt 
ons' lead to compounded inflexibility further down the line. Other 
libraries are addressing these problems.  If gtkmm and glibmm don't 
address them, they'll probably end up becoming sidelined.

John