Re: Serialization in libgobject

2006-06-02 Thread Tim Janik
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Stefan Kost wrote: Hi Tim, thanks for the extensive comments and detailed concerns. Don't you think it would be good to keep the buzzgilla issue open. Its an enhancement request after all and there seems to be several people wanting to have it. well, my concern is that mo

Re: Serialization in libgobject

2006-05-25 Thread Stefan Kost
Hi Tim, thanks for the extensive comments and detailed concerns. Don't you think it would be good to keep the buzzgilla issue open. Its an enhancement request after all and there seems to be several people wanting to have it. The bugzilla issue could serve as a tracker item. And now maybe some mor

Re: Serialization in libgobject

2006-05-24 Thread Zeeshan Ali
Hello Tim, Nice to see someone finally addressing this matter. the request for providing object and strcuture serialization/deserialization in libgobject has come up a number of times: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-January/msg00128.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives

Re: Serialization in libgobject

2006-05-24 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Tim Janik wrote: > Hi All. > > the request for providing object and strcuture > serialization/deserialization > in libgobject has come up a number of times: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-January/msg00128.html > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-October/m

Re: Serialization in libgobject

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Paprocki
I'll outline the implementation of a real-world generic GObject serialization/deserialization system that we wrote from scratch to handle these issues. > a) the GType system is not self-contained enough to recursively (de-)serialize > nested structures and objects (e.g. POINTER or BOXED type

Serialization in libgobject

2006-05-24 Thread Tim Janik
Hi All. the request for providing object and strcuture serialization/deserialization in libgobject has come up a number of times: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-January/msg00128.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-October/msg00123.html http://bugzilla