Re: [GNOME VFS] gob inside gnome-vfs ...

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net>]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 16:26, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 23:08, Ian McKellar wrote:
> 
> Incidentally, I also fixed about half the tests to work properly. But
> whatever.

Thank you :)
> 
> > "I don't know gob" isn't really an argument against GOB that I'll
> > accept. Its really not hard to learn. I'm aware that theres a lot of
> > fear and antagonism directed towards gob by much of the community, but
> > technical xenophoboa isn't going to stop us adopting what we believe to
> > be a technically better solution thats easy for other people to work
> > with. As I said before, if you know GObject and you know Java you'll
> > understand GOB after 15 minutes with the man page and an example file.
> 
> There's one thing I don't know about gob, and 2 things that are
> annoying. Does it handle properties ? and 1) it regenerates the .h file
> even though nothing has changed in it (ie. you changed the
> implementation, not the "public" api, and the fact that you have to
> write so much crap in the Makefile.am to handle the .gob files. It
> should be possible to write a macro for that, certainly.

It handles properties really nicely but it does regenerate the .h file
when you change the API. Its a pity, but I think maintaining some kind
of api state would be difficult and possibly hacky. We would have to
worry not only about the public api but also the private API.

Ian