Re: [mlview-list] MlView activity News

[Daniel Holbach <dh mailempfang de>]

Hey Dodji and all you mlview hackers,

Am Sonntag, den 22.05.2005, 12:47 +0200 schrieb Dodji Seketeli:
> In the mean time, we have been pondering switching the code base to C++.
> Yeah, I know that will hurt some people. But I am tired of writing gobjects in
> C, really. It's bug prone, long, and tedious. What makes the process tedious is
> not the use of the C libraries. It more the need of concepts like
> inheritance, polymorphism that makes the use of gobjects tedious in C.

I'm absolutely amazed - this is really an exciting turn in the mlview
development, which in the beginning will give a lot of pioneer
atmosphere but will bear loads of thrilling chances to the project.

Having worked with both libxml2 and libxml++2.6 (and glib2.0 and
glibmm2.4), I found the C++ development easier and more straight-forward
due to the incredible efforts of all the people involved in those
projects, probably most notably Murray Cumming.

I'm still quite busy, but having said this, I guess it's more likely
I'll get involved into mlview, maybe adding tiny tweaks to it.

Rejoice everyone!

Have a nice day,
 Daniel

PS: When will you switch to baz instead of tla? :-)