Re: [aqualung-friends] std vs glib

[Tom S. <tom...@gm...>]

On 5/29/07, Peter Szilagyi <sp...@hs...> wrote:
>
> As for functions like strdup, they might deserve a thought, but rather
> the platform-dependent ones which require porting, and not the
> functions having reliable implementation on all plaforms that Aqualug
> targets. You should ask Tom of this since he does all that kind of
> work.

The std C functions we use are mostly portable.

In the cases when they were not portable (mostly GNU extensions)
and thus I needed porting them, it was not sufficient to use a glib-provided
counterpart, but a more in-depth solution or workaround was necessary.

> "...glib's various facilities are intended to have a consistent
> interface; the coding style is semi-object-oriented, and identifiers
> are prefixed with "g" to create a kind of namespace..."

We don't really care about how glib wants us to program.
We could as well prefix all our identifiers with "a_" to create
an "aqualung namespace", if such issues bothered us.

Tom