[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-server v2 1/2] Introduce some macros to help declaring new GObject

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 03:58:21AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:42:29PM +0100, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > The macros will implement most of the boilerplate needed
> > > to declare an object.
> > > Their usage are similar to GLib G_DECLARE_*_TYPE macros.
> > 
> > Can we/should we use the GLib provided macros when they are available,
> > and copy/paste the GLib implementation in a -compat.h header for older
> > systems. The GLib macros were introduced in GLib 2.43.4
> > 
> > Christophe
> > 
> 
> That's fine. But our objects are currently neither final neither interfaces
> so we can't use any of them.

MainChannel, CursorChannel, ... could be considered final, RedChannel,
... could most likely use G_DECLARE_DERIVABLE_TYPE. But the GLib macros might
not exactly match what we are doing (naming, private data, ..).

Christophe