Re: Exceptions in glib

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Andreas Bogk <andreas andreas org> writes:
> 
> The canonical solution to this is of course garbage collection, which
> would make exceptions in C manageable. But I bet that's a topic that
> has been discussed here (and probably rejected) before as well...
> 

Owen and I have discussed garbage collection, but there are a host of
practical problems. Still, GTK internals and GTK usage could be
simplified a lot with GC. We have some ideas about allowing the use of
GC, but not in the short term.

Havoc