Re: Glib main loop update

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Lauri Alanko <lealanko@cc.helsinki.fi> writes:

> On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > I sat down this weekend, and did an initial implementation
> > of a main loop for GLib.
> 
> Very nice, but I hope all this vfunc stuff will be made into classes once
> the object system divorces from the UI toolkit.. Would be pretty pointless
> having both gtk objects and methods and miscellaneous other polymorphic
> functions..

Unfortunately, probably not. It's a layering problem. 
Although GtkObject will eventually be split off, it's will
be a separate library, instead of part of Glib. Since
that separate library will depend on GLib, GLib can't
depend on it.

Regards,
                             Owen