[Glade-devel] Re: glade code generation

[Christof Petig]

Jon Cast wrote:
> Bill Haneman <bill.haneman@sun.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>I do believe that handler stub generation is useful.  I advocate
>>improving it, not removing it.
> 
> 
>>Dissatisfactor with the UI generation code is what started the
>>discussion.
> 
> 
> Right.  But AFAIR, no effective argument has been advanced against the
> UI generation code.  Somewhat valid arguments have been advanced against
> generating stubs, though---and these have been used in the overall
> conversation.  So, lest anyone lose sight of the fact that they apply
> /only/ to stub generation, I thought I'd throw that out.
> 
> In any case, I'm curious what value you see in stub generation (over and
> above prototype generation, which can go into a non-modifiable file in
> C)?

stub generation enables the programmer to test the program before 
everything is implemented. It gives an easy start, and enables you to 
test your build environment before you do any error-prone modifications 
to the project.

    Christof