On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Philip Withnall <phi...@tecnocode.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 11:22 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > On ons, 2015-02-11 at 12:17 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote: > > > > > > I understand where you’re coming from; we should not be irritating > > > experienced developers. I completely agree. > > > > > > What do you think of the proposal to use sync gstdio.h for > > > small/local/pseudo-file-system I/O and async GIO for all other I/O? > > > > I don't think this is a great alternative in many cases. The gstdio > > stuff may work fine from C, but the GObjects etc of gio makes such use > > much nicer from language bindings. > > True. Wouldn’t the languages typically have their own native gstdio-like > functions for local file I/O though, which would tend to be integrated > nicely? > Javascript doesn't; one of the main reasons behind the decision to make JS the first-class citizen for new Gnome apps developers was precisely that it didn't already have its own platform. I got the impression that using, for example, Python's native local file I/O facilities in the Gnome stack was to be discouraged. -- Philip
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