Re: New ideas for the API

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:00:54PM +0100, Sven Herzberg, GNOME Deutschland 
wrote:
> Am Sa, den 31.01.2004 schrieb Gustavo Noronha Silva um 10:34:
> > The first one, http://bugs.debian.org/230315, seems to me like a
> > good idea and somewhat obvious functionality for those
> > functions in particular, then it's probably going to be done
> > in CVS as soon as I arrive in Belo Horizonte and turn on my
> > laptop (I'm leaving on this trip in 1 hour).
> 
> I'd definitely vote against this as application developers can easily
> write.
> 
> ---
> gchar* command;
> command = g_strdup_printf ("command %s %d", param1, param2);
> gksu_call_some_method (command);
> 
> g_free (command);
> ---

Sure, if a developer can write the above, why would he want anything
overly simplified as:

gksu_call_method ("command %s %d", param1, param2);

He won't even know what's really going on anymore!
</sarcasm>

We can add this functionality nearly for free, and it saves the
application developer both on (command) string setup, and on memory
management. Given that these are the two things that cause most problems
in C application development, it's well worth taking this out of their
hands.
Aside from the fact that this makes application code more readable and
as a consequence easier to maintain...

> Introducing printf features in gksu looks to me like being either:
>  * code duplication (we have the code in glib), or

You do realize that "code duplication" and "code use" are different
phrases, and have different meanings?


Regards,

Filip

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