Re: Pango perl bindings

[Chia-liang Kao <clkao clkao org>]

muppet <scott <at> asofyet.org> writes:
> Without a namespace change, we can't really ever remove things that  
> have been in stable releases.  The reason is that doing so would break  
> existing code that we do not control.
> 
> And, we've reserved the idea of moving to the Gtk3 namespace for the  
> bindings of gtk+ 3.x.
> 
> So, Gtk2::Pango must always be there.
> 
> The primary option is simply to yellow-wire[1] all of the Gtk2::Pango  
> APIs over to the new namespace, mark them deprecated in the docs, and  
> promote the use of the new stuff.  See also our handling of  
> Gtk2::SimpleList and Gtk2::Ex::SimpleList, and Gtk2::CodeGen versus  
> Glib::CodeGen.

Agreed.  If someone can pack up the new Pango dist with the xs moved over,
I'm happy to do the namespace wiring to provide gtk2::pango compatibility.

> Another option is to split all the Gtk2::Pango stuff into a second XS  
> extension installed by Gtk2; you'd have to have Gtk2 installed to use  
> Gtk2::Pango, but would not have to load it into memory.  Not as clean,  
> and harder on the build infrastructure, but easier on the  
> compatibility issues.

I think I'd prefer the standalone Pango dist, as the problem was first brought
up because I wanted to use pango with cairo but not gtk2.

> For the record, when all this got started, we assumed (wrongly, it  
> appears) that no one would want to use pango without gtk+.  A  
> secondary reason was to avoid toplevel namespace pollution on CPAN.

I guess pango at that time didn't have other stanealone uses (or not as popular
as it is today), but it's never to late to fix things ;)

Cheers,
CLK