[gtkada] Patch for String_List in Gtk.enums - Going in

[Emmanuel Briot]

Jeff Creem writes:
 > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:00:35 -0400 I sent a message with a patch for some
 > additional
 > features for the instance of glist for string types. No comments gripes or
 > complaints
 > were posted in response.
 > 
 > Any chance this is going to go in to the CVS tree or is it a bad idea?


Jeff,

I thought your mail had been answered already.
Anyway: we are not really interested in putting new Ada functions in glib
itself. GtkAda is mostly a binding after all, and we have tried to use these
low-level lists only for the binding part (C functions returning such a list
for instance). All the new widgets that were written directly in Ada use their
own lists.

It might be interesting to put your functions in a separate package, and maybe
this could go into the contrib/ directory of the GtkAda distribution. I'll
discuss this with the other GtkAda developpers.

However, one other thing that might be interesting to investigate: it seems
that the binding to glist.h is incomplete. In particular, a quick look at it
shows that the C version has the following functions:

 GList*   g_list_delete_link    (GList            *list,
                                 GList            *link);

which might (or not :-) do what you want.

I think it would be more interesting (and easier to maintain) to enhance the
binding itself rather than writing some Ada functions for that.


regards,
Emmanuel