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On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Luis de Arquer <dearquerfern AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Having a quick look at libgeda/src/s_weakref.c, there are a few
> functions managing the notification, and helping to add weak
> references to an object (weak references are stored in a GList at
> st_object). It is the only notifying mechanism I have found in libgeda
> so far. The weak ref struct looks like this:
> 
> struct WeakRef
> {
>  void (*notify_func)(void *, void *);
>  void *user_data;
> };
> 
> so it is a simple notification mechanism, apparently only used for
> object destruction, although it could potentially be used for other
> events.

Thank you for looking into it.

> IMHO, gobjects may be a better long term choice. It has most of the
> job done already, and includes reference counting. It is also
> attribute friendly, but I don't know how much of a grief it could be
> to embed gobjects in libgeda.

I believe gobjects are a good choice too.

If the implementation would make it easy for language bindings, that
would be great for libgeda. So that library functionality could be used
from Python, for example. The gobjects may offer a better solution here
too.

Some structs will move over to gobjects easily, and accessors could be
implemented over time. I can also contribute my time to help implement
this too.

Cheers,
Ed