[Hamlib-developer] Proposal

[Frank S. <vk...@ix...>]

Hi,

I have been writing some dissectors for a cool opensource
project called "ethereal". see http://www.ethereal.com/

Anyway, we use glib and gtk, and that goes a long way
to helping support multiple platforms. Ethereal
compiles and runs on Unix (+flavors), Linux, window$ etc..

I have been thinking about the long term project
goals for hamlib, and I think that ease of
development accross platforms is probably one
of the most important goals.

So, I would like to propose that we use glib
also in our project. It provides a variety
of nice (data types (eg: guint8), functions like hashes, 
mem allocation , trees, etc and is supported (like gtk)
across many platforms.


eg: guint8 is an unsigned 8 bit int.
eg: guint16 is an unsigned 16 bit int.
etc..

It provides a nice abstraction from the basic C types, a plus
for portability.

See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/glib/index.html
for some examples.

Also http://gtk.org/ for some gtk stuff.

I think with hamlib/glib/gtk, we could do some seriously
cool stuff !

It would not take much effort now to "glibify" the codebase
we have, before it gets too large.

Comments ??

/ Frank

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Frank Singleton				VK3FCS

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