Re: u/int64 support for glib status?

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Erik Walthinsen <omega temple-baptist com> writes:

> On 19 Sep 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> >  - I don't see it as a real pressing API lack compared to other
> >    issues we have.
> 
> Not having int64 support in glib2.0 means that GStreamer will have to ship
> with a patched version of glib2.0, which neither you nor I want.  There is
> simply no way around that.  Without it, glib2.0 cannot be made the basis
> for anything that deals with high-resolution time, or large files.  Seems
> a rather large deal to me.

ack. We at convergence deal with large MPEG files and need 64bit too. We
can surely work around it, but we'd prefer to be able to store off_t in a 
GValue so we can easily serialize our objects.


Salut, Sven