Hi, On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > * I really hope there is room in GVariant for NULL values in some way > or other. Without a NULL it is hard to map stuff from an SQL DB > directly to the serialization format without nasty hacks. This has > bitten me several times with DBus.
Looks to me like it has null (see the gvariant git repo, "maybe" types) > * How about dropping GVariant data in a human readable form to a > file? I think I saw a to/from gmarkup api and command line tool in the code too > * It has been discussed elsewhere in this thread that GVariant is a > parallel type system to GType. While I think this is true to some > extend I also think it is good. Intermixing the type system from an OO > platform with that of a serialization framework is Just A Bad Idea > (TM). More and more I think gvariant is an analog to libxml or gkeyfile, not gtype. Havoc _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
