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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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