Re: [PATCH] gnokii gtk2 port

[Pawel Kot]

Hi Bastien,

2005/8/3, Bastien Nocera <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 21:41 +0200, Pawel Kot wrote:
> > Hi Bozo,
> >
> > 2005/8/2, BORBELY Zoltan <address@hidden>:
> > > There are a lot of old code in gnokii which contain buffer overflow
> > > errors. gnokii is evolving from an ordinary application to some kind
> > > of server application, so we have to remove these errors from the code.
> > > Maybe we have to redesign parts of the API to reach this goal...
> >
> > I'm a bit ashamed, but I really don't have enough time to design
> > dcop/dbus daemon. I think it should be the first step in redesigning
> > API. Development of the drivers is also important, but I'd rather have
> > first a working daemon and then start to work on libgnokii2 (or
> > whatever).
> 
> Even then, wouldn't this daemon just sit on top of libgnokii?

It will. But before we start playing with libgnokii, I'd like to have
something more stable with well-known API. What Bozo propozes implies
changing libgnokii API.

> I don't see what the big deal is with using glib. It would mean less
> code in gnokii (especially the convenience string functions), and glib
> is available on all the platforms that gnokii can possibly run on (that
> means all the Unices, MacOS X included, and Windows).

It is not a standard library though.

I'm leaving tomorrow for 5 day vacation, so I will reconsider adding
dependency on glib.

take care,
pkot
-- 
Pawel Kot
http://www.gnokii.org/