Re: const

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net> writes:
> I think that some GConf functions need to make use of const.
> e.g.
> gconf_value_copy(), gconf_schema_copy(), gconf_value_to_string().
> 
> Would this break binary compatibility? Will you be breaking binary and/or
> source compatibility for GNOME 2?
> 

It can be done in unstable. 

However it's not that useful (const does not work properly for C
structs, which is why C programmers rarely bother to use const).

Havoc