Re: Future of glib?

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

GTK+ depends on GLib, but not the other way around. The 64-bit OS X
development packages currently ship with GLib and Qt but not GTK+.

On 11/3/13 1:53 PM, Roland Knall wrote:
> I agree, but glib is still part of gtk. And as of now, the normal way
> of installing glib would be to install gtk onto the system. So
> basically you have two frameworks, and you will need both to develop
> for ws from now on. I am not trying to change anything here, and I
> accept that as of right now, no change is necessary. But as long as
> new dissectors are integrated, new code is being written, everything
> in the main libraries is being based on glib. And gradually changing
> something from here on out seems to be a petter plan than to change
> anything later in a rather short time-span.
>
> btw, I do not suggest changing to c++, I honestly do not know what the
> target should be.
>
> regards,
> Roland
>
> p.s.: I am fine with glib staying. Depend on some of the functionality
> for my dissectors anyway.
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:
> > On 11/3/13 12:54 PM, Roland Knall wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Just a short question. If the long-term goal is to switch to Qt, what
> > > ist the long-term plan for glib? As of now, many dissectors use the
> > > data types, tables, etc.
> > >
> > > Should they be replaced with Qt calls, default datatypes (e.g. guint16
> > > => uint16_t, ...) ?
> > >
> > > What is the course here?
> >
> > I don't think GLib will go away any time soon. It provides a lot of
> > useful functionality and as you point out Wireshark uses it all over the
> > place. It also doesn't require switching anything outside of ui/qt to C++.
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