Re: The storage interface cleanup - incredible

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar maurer-it com>]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> In fact, the Stream interface is almost certainly going to change for
> GNOME 2.0 anyway, if we follow the wise advise of the Sun people who
> pointed out that factoring the interface into InputStream,
> OutputStream and Seekable is a better way to go. So you can't even
> pretend this particular change will prevent interface breakage down
> the line.

I am not convinced that the purposed splitting is a better way to go.
Anyway, the advantage is better interface reusability. We can reach
this if we split the interface (like sun suggested) and combine the parts
using multiple inheritance (which is supported by CORBA).
This change will not break anything.

- Dietmar