[JDEV] Why not GLib ?

[Paul Prince]

Heh, why not just rewrite Jabber in Perl?
-P

Michael Emswiler wrote:

> Have you guys looked into SMT as a replacement for PTH?  It's a small
> and portable multi-threading library -- I haven't used it alot, but I
> did have one project with it and it worked well for that purpose (and
> was easily compilable on multiple platforms ... they've already got it
> running on the most common..)
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Thomas Muldowney
>      Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 10:00 PM
>      To: jdev at jabber.org
>      Subject: Re: [JDEV] Why not GLib ?
>       I've been an advocate of this for a while now, and I think
>      it will probalby
>      get reevaluated again for 1.3.  As a side note, pth is gonna
>      be gone.
>
>      --temas
>
>      On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:04:04PM -0600, Dave Smith wrote:
>      > Well..glib has come up a number of times when we need data
>      structures. The
>      > primary reason that we haven't used it is that the added
>      dependency that
>      > GLib would bring outweighs the actual functionality that
>      we would actually
>      > use from it. :)
>      >
>      > Jabber isn't all that complicated and we like to keep the
>      codebase as small
>      > and dependent-free as possible.
>      >
>      > D.
>      >
>      > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:57:50PM +0200, David Le Corfec
>      wrote:
>      > > Why not use the GLib for jabber2 ?
>      > >
>      > > It has nice abstract types for lists, hashes ...
>      > > (see libjabber/src/genhash.c)
>      > > Plus nice portability/utility functions, and
>      > > handy macros (g_return_if_fail() kind of macros
>      > > can save life by ensuring preconditions and writing
>      > > a nice log message if it fails, instead of silently
>      > > returning)
>      > >
>      > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/glib/index.html
>      > >
>      > > If there's no strong reason against it, it could
>      > > be progressively used in libxode/libjabber/jabber2 ...
>      > > (I would like to cleanup most of the code in a GLib
>      > > fashion :)
>      > >
>      > > Or at least some ideas could be reused (like
>      > > those preconditions checks ...)
>      > >
>      > > It also is a good example of programming,
>      > > take a look at the sources :)
>      > >
>      > > --
>      > > David Le Corfec
>      > > Disclaimer : I love the GLib :)
>      > >
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