Re: About compatibility in GNOME 2 (was Re: Compatibility stuff)

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Michael Meeks wrote:

>
> On 9 Mar 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > Well, the problem I see here is when development goes on in the
> > > stable branch and only a few people are using HEAD. Then it'll be a
> > > huge pain to have a large number of changes.
> >
> > But that situation is only going to last until the end of the month.
> > Anyone who won't branch once 1.4 goes out deserves untold flameage
> > brought down from the heavens. Don't worry about it.
>
>         Whilst initialy disagreeing with Martin, and loathing hacks like:
>
>                 #define GTK_OBJECT_TYPE G_OBJECT_TYPE

Why is this particular change necessary, when gtk+ HEAD already has a
GTK_OBJECT_TYPE() macro that does the equivalent thing?

-- Elliot
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...and so it goes away.