[GNC-dev] gnucash maint: Multiple changes pushed

[Derek Atkins]

On Thu, January 10, 2019 7:42 pm, John Ralls wrote:
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[snip]
>
> Gtk has gtk_init. You call it, set up your GUI, then call gtk_main to
> start the event loop. libguile has several initialization functions to
> choose from:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Initialization.html#Initialization.
> No "initialize on first use" there.
>
> Consider that "initialize on first use" means that *every* exported
> function has to have a clause or belong to a class whose constructor
> checks for and initializes the global state. If we just need to do it for
> localizing the C++ UI locale, that's what get_cpp_locale() does and we're
> done, except that we'd have to make that first call thread safe. If we
> need to do much more, a library init function is cleaner and simpler...
> and might be cleaner and simpler than making get_cpp_locale thread safe.
>
> This is all for the rather distant future, though, so let's defer figuring
> it out til then. We'll forget by then anything we decide now. ;-)

Add a comment in the code to remind us?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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