On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <beh...@behdad.org> wrote: >On 02/05/2013 02:13 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: >> 2013/2/4 Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com>: >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> a while ago, we've talked about getting a handle on the enormous >>> number of open bugs in glib and gtk. >> >> This bug, which makes GOption useless on Windows and has accumulated >> 93 comments so far, could be easily fixed (it has patches) if someone >> finally decided which way is preferable. > >It can be "easily fixed" in the sense that every application also would then >need to be fixed...
Yes, but at least app writers would have a path forward, which they have not for years other then "Don't use GOption if you want option parsing to always work portably." Having to change a couple of lines is vastly preferable to rewriting everything to not use GOption cause its broken. Leave the old symbol in place, add a new one that functions correctly, and slowly people can switch to the less buggy way on their own time. My 2 cents. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list