[JDEV] Why not GLib ?

[Dave Smith]

GLib does _not_ provide threading capabilities. :) Additionally, we'll be moving to
pthreads for 1.3...

D.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 03:24:41PM -0400, Benjamin Kahn wrote:
> 
> 	What dependancy would that be?  And, if Jabber used glib, you
> could get rid of the REALLY TERRIBLE pth...
> 
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dave Smith wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:04:04 -0600
> > From: Dave Smith <dave at jabber.org>
> > Reply-To: jdev at jabber.org
> > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > Subject: Re: [JDEV] Why not GLib ?
> > 
> > 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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> 						-Ben
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