Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 02:19 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Andrew Sobala">
> 
> > When GNOME 3.0 comes out, we can deprecate/delete API as we feel fit.
> 
> Clarification: We can deprecate API *now*, but we can't break ABI. That will
> mean some applications would have to be built with -DYESIAMTEHSUX0RUSEOLDAPI
> mess, but that's not a huge problem.

(highly irrelevant) Clarification of the clarification: That would break
API (it stops old code from compiling). It's OK to add a define to help
developers to avoid using deprecated API, but it's not nice to demand
those defines when compiling old code that predates the deprecation.

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