On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Nagy Gabor wrote:

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http://repo.or.cz/w/pacman-ng.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/working

I know you may not like this way (free functions public), but IMHO the result is not so ugly ;-)

Can we just expose something more like "free_conflictlist"? Having those casts and stuff is rather ugly on the public side of the library usage.

When we walk through the data list in the front-end, we could do alpm_*_free(i->data) inside the loop. This may looks better, but I don't think it is nicer. (But at least we don't need casts.) I may give a try to implement specific list-free functions, but there is one more thing which is not nice here. Namely, the free(list) function depends on the error type, which is also ugly imho. Maybe we should pass somehow a free function somehow with data list as well, or somehow do the free task in back-end (how?). Irl, these *data lists are not used. I mean, it is used for printing error messages only. Obviously the back-end could build these messages and print via alpm_log(PM_LOG_ERROR,...) I guess this data list was designed to give the ability of "handling" these errors to the front-end (a front-end after some user interaction could resolve deps?). If this "flexibility" is not important, we could simply drop these (ugly) data lists. Bye PS: Dan, sorry about my previous direct mail. ------------------------------------------------------ SZTE Egyetemi Konyvtar - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This message was sent using IMP: http://horde.org/imp/