ConnMan 1.0 released [LWN.net]

ConnMan 1.0 released

Posted May 11, 2012 12:35 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: ConnMan 1.0 released by alexl
Parent article: ConnMan 1.0 released

Because gobject is such a pleasant and C-like system to use.

(Seriously. I like most of glib, though it is a bit memory-inefficient for some uses -- but gobject is a classic example of overgeneralization yielding a system that, while quite general, is terrifically difficult to use for almost all practical use cases. This is a fairly common trap to fall into, so I'm not *blaming* anyone, or I'd have to blame myself for several even more baroque systems I've perpetrated in the past which thankfully have not got into the wide world. But still.)

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ConnMan 1.0 released

Posted May 12, 2012 21:25 UTC (Sat) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]

> Because gobject is such a pleasant and C-like system to use.

> (Seriously. I like most of glib, though it is a bit memory-inefficient for
> some uses -- but gobject is a classic example of overgeneralization
> yielding a system that, while quite general, is terrifically difficult to
> use for almost all practical use cases.)

Thanks, this is a much more civil explanation of the issue than I could manage at this point, with deadlines looming for producing a couple custom plugins for the heavily-glib-based gstreamer framework. Straight-forward generation of language bindings is a wonderful feature of glib, but coding in the glibc based C code itself... I'd better stop there, before I get uncivil