Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Future of glib?
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:42:25 -0800
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++.