[GSoC] GObjectification Summary

[Tomasz Wasilczyk]

2013/11/19 Ankit Vani <a at nevitus.org>

> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Tomasz Wasilczyk <twasilczyk at pidgin.im>
> wrote:
> > I'm not sure, if its revelant, but you can always use preprocessor
> > directives to write code both for currently required version and never
> ones.
> > You can even write your implementation of newer functions and put it into
> > glibcompat.h file.
>
> That would definitely work. I'll have to add this to glibcompat.h:
>
>  #if !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 26, 0)
>
>  static inline void g_object_notify_by_pspec(GObject *object, GParamSpec
> *pspec)
>  {
>   g_object_notify(object, g_param_spec_get_name(pspec));
>  }
>
>  #endif /* < 2.26.0 */
>
> However, I noticed this file is used sparingly at the moment. Is it okay
> to use
> it in every file that provides GObjects, even if they don't use anything
> else
> from the header?
>

It's pretty new, so it's not used widely yet. Feel free to use it where you
need it, as soon as it's not included in externally visible headers.


>
> Using g_object_notify_by_pspec() would avoid looking up a property name to
> retrieve its spec instance.
>
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