Re: [gnome-db] New Libgda V3.99.4

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander es gnu org>]

Hi all,
>     in your last version you removed gda_data_model_get_value_at_column().
>     It was an handy function to retrieve a value from a column name, which
>     is also mentioned here
>     http://library.gnome.org/devel/libgda-4.0/unstable/ch07s06.html#id2552536.
> 
>     I cannot find a replacement for it, may you please indicate me what I
>     should use?
> 
>  
> I removed it because I don't want to encourage people using column names
> as they are not reliable (depends a lot on the database's native API): I
> prefer people to use column numbers. Also the replacement is fairly easy:
> 
> gda_data_model_get_value_at (model, gda_data_model_get_column_index(model, "mycol"), row, &error);
> 

That function could have been left in the API and marked as "deprecated"
or something.

IMHO, I don't think that removing functions from the API in each new
release is a good approach, even if there is a good reason for that. It
will break lots of compilations out there.

Cheers,
-Aleksander