Re: Future of glib?

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

On 11/3/13 12:54 PM, Roland Knall wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just a short question. If the long-term goal is to switch to Qt, what
> ist the long-term plan for glib? As of now, many dissectors use the
> data types, tables, etc.
>
> Should they be replaced with Qt calls, default datatypes (e.g. guint16
> => uint16_t, ...) ?
>
> What is the course here?

I don't think GLib will go away any time soon. It provides a lot of
useful functionality and as you point out Wireshark uses it all over the
place. It also doesn't require switching anything outside of ui/qt to C++.
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