[sldev] Opinions regarding use of GTK glib on Windows/MacOS?

[Ben Byer]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 8:09 PM, alissa_sabre at yahoo.co.jp wrote:

> Developers,
>
> I'm recently investigating several codeset/locale related issues in SL
> viewer.
>
> [...]
>
> Examples of useful glib functions include:
> - g_unichar_isupper() to replace a buggy use of iswupper() in  
> LLStringOps.
> - g_ascii_strtod() to replace questionable uses of strtod().
>
> I want to hear your opinions, especially from Lindens, on this issue.
>
> Pros for glib:
> - It's licensed under LGPL.
> - Widely used.  Well maintained.
> - Runs on many platforms including Windows, MacOS(*), and Linux.
> - Linux version of SL viewer already uses it. (indirectly through  
> libgtk.)
> - Explicitly supports platform-independent, locale-neutral Unicode  
> handling.
> - Its Uniocde character properties table is synchronized with Unicode
>  Consortium's official data.

I'm all for it, for whatever that's worth. :)
-b