[Adium-devl] [ANN] msn-pecan 0.0.12 released

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Fri May 2 21:55:51 UTC 2008


On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
>
>  On May 2, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>  > The reason is that it's using GIOChannel. It makes things much easier
>  > to report proper networking errors.
>  >
>  > I tried to encapsulate all the GIOChannel usage so it wouldn't be
>  > difficult to change, but would prefer not do so.
>  >
>  > Actually I would like to move on and use gio
>
>  How does gio differ from GIOChannel?

It's newer :)

Probably GIOChannel will get deprecated at some point as GIO is doing
so much more.

Many things msn-pecan is doing by foot can be done by GIO like
synchronous and asynchronous transmissions (considering E_AGAIN),
proper buffering, and GObjectification.

It just seems like the right way to go.

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras




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