Re: [RFC] Proposal for GtkSourceView 3.24, 3.50 and 3.90

[Matthew Brush <mbrush codebrainz ca>]

On 2016-11-01 04:43 AM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:55:58PM +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> > I've updated the wiki page with that proposal (Proposal 2) and added a
> > third proposal, a mix of Proposal 1 and 2:
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView/TransitionToGtkSourceView4
>
> And I've now added a fourth proposal, in my opinion more logical: just
> bump the major version since there is an API break (and a major one).
>
> GtkSourceView based on GTK+ 4.0 (stable) will happen only in 2 or 3
> years. Changing the GtkSourceView namespace will happen this development
> cycle. So it would be great if existing applications are able to use the
> new namespace while still using GTK+ 3. It would be one less thing to
> care about when porting an application to GTK+ 4.0. Also, between March
> 2017 and GTK+ 4.0, new apps or new libraries can be developed, depending
> on GtkSourceView. So when writing that new code, it would be better to
> use the new namespace.

Hi,

Do you have any recommendations for applications wanting to support a 
range of GSV versions from before and after the rename? I guess making a 
header with a bunch of #defines mapping to the old names would work, but 
perhaps there's something less tedious I missed, or some compatibility 
path planned?

Regards,
Matthew Brush