Re: GtkType defined in a gmodule?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com> writes:
> What's the right way to handle a GtkType that's defined in a loadable
> module that can get unloaded and reloaded multiple times? There's no
> way to remove an existing GtkType, so the module can't clean up on
> exit. However, from what I can see reusing the type by using
> gtk_type_from_name to get it is not really safe, since the GtkTypeNode
> contains pointers to things that could have changed addresses in the
> process of unloading and reloading the library. But there does not
> appear to be a way to change the already created GtkType either.
> 
> Is there no way to do this right? If so, the implications for shlib
> Bonobo components are very unfortunate.
> 
> If there is a way to do it I'd appreciate pointers.
> 

libgobject has a lot of provisions for this, it involved some pretty
nontrivial changes to the type system design I believe.

Havoc