Re: gEDA-user: Can't load layouts created with current pcb,

[Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@xxxxxxx>]

Karel Kulhavy wrote:

>> OK, the problem are the fprintf calls in src/file.c
>> Just setting the locale to C will proobably not work well with future
>> localization of pcb messages. Setting the locale to C, writing the file
>> and setting it back to the original one is not thread-safe (I don't know
>> if pcb uses threads though).
>> One solution would be to use the locale-independent g_ascii_strtod()
>> from glib.
> 
> Then it will stop working on systems that don't have glibc with
> g_ascii_strtod.
> 
> I suggest to take the g_ascii_strtod from glibc, rip it out and embed
> into the PCB source. Then you are free of all problems, forever, and for
> all platforms. 
> 
> CL<
>> Philipp
> 

Doesn't pcb depend on GTK+ anyway? GTK+ depends on glib, which includes
g_ascii_strtod().

Philipp