Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2008-09-23

["David Trowbridge" <trowbrds gmail com>]

> If the pain is all you care about, I suggest you grep some source
> codes a bit. Gnumeric has like ten HBoxes and ten VBoxes in C code
> and a lot of them in .glade files. The C ones take half and hour to
> port, the glade ones take a regex. Where is the "pain"? It no more
> pain than any other deprecation.

Please remember that not everyone can or does use glade.

$ ack -h "(Gtk::HBox|Gtk::VBox)" apps | wc -l
406

With your estimate of time spent on porting code, this creates roughly
two days of work for me.

-David