Re: Bug #101792...

["J. Ali Harlow" <ali juiblex co uk>]

On 2004.08.25 00:04 Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> J. Ali Harlow writes:
>  > That's also possible, and would have the great advantage of keeping
>  > ABI but I'd be worried that people would start using both variants
>  > if we weren't careful to discourage them.
>
> But people wouldn't be supposed to know that there are two
> variants. The documentation would only mention the "normally" named
> API and tell people that on Windows, GLib returns and expects UTF-8
> filenames. The "#define g_dir_read_name g_dir_read_name_utf8" etc
> could be hidden somewhere where it would be unlikely to be noticed ;-)
>
> (I mean, nobody notices that a gtk_init() call is actually #defined to
> call gtk_init_abi_check() on Windows, do they?)

Quite; if we're careful it shouldn't be a problem.

>  > I'd like to think we could get rid of the system codepage variants
>  > in the next ABI breakage.
>
> There is no such breakage planned in the foreseeable future AFAIK...

That's my understanding also, but there's bound to be a breakage at some 
point so we might as well plan things so that we can take the opportunity 
to clean things up when the next breakage does occur.

Cheers,

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J. Ali Harlow
ali juiblex co uk