From: Dermot Musgrove (dermot@glade.perl.connectfree.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 14:20:50 EDT
Hi Chema,
Thanks for your response.
Chema Celorio wrote:
>
> On 03 Jul 2001 18:56:41 +0100, Dermot Musgrove wrote:
> > Chema Celorio wrote:
> > >
> > > I uploaded to the CVS a TODO file in the glade2 module.
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please can I ask the Glade2 developers to contact the authors of the
> > source code generators to explain what is involved in changing from
> > Glade to Glade2.
>
> As far as i know most of the code generators are external programs,
> if this is correct then the code generators just need to be able to
> read the new format.
So can I assume that:
1) All the information held in Glade files will also be in Glade2 files.
2) There is no new information in Glade2 files that needs to be handled .
3) All defaults will be the same - and no new defaults.
4) Someone will announce when the XML format is frozen.
> > So far, there seems to be _no_ thought or planning given to generators
>
> I don't know what thought or planing are you talking about. If you have
> any ideas about code generators it would be good if you can talk about
> it. The only thought is to move the C code generator out of glade and
> either make code generators an external progam that read .glade files or
> make them loadable glade modules.
These are very different requirements for the generator authors, indeed I
am not sure how this this would work at all. I guess that you have
considered making Glade2 an object that would supply services so that
IDEs, editors or even generators can use Glade2 functionality rather than
the present way round.
> > and it would be very destructive to fork a UI builder without source
> > code generators - when 'version 1' already works.
>
> fork ? I don't think glade2 qualifies as a fork.
Good news - I know that the changes to gtk2 are likely to be the most
work but I worry that Glade may need to be be changed and the two versions
will diverge.
I am really making a request that the Glade2 developers do not take the
many generator authors for granted. I am not sure what reason there is to
commit myself to many hours of work and convert my generator when I am
not sure what benefits there are.
I am only speaking for myself but I wrote a Perl generator because I
wanted to use Glade and Perl and I can still do this with Glade1.
Regards, Dermot
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