Re: api duplication

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 28 Jan 2003, Christophe Fergeau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As pointed out by http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104532
> gnome-vfs 2.2.0 introduced 2 duplicated functions: 
> gnome-vfs-uri.h:gnome_vfs_uri_make_full_from_relative
> gnome-vfs-utils.h:gnome_vfs_make_uri_full_from_relative
> 
> The one from gnome-vfs-uri.h has been there for a long time, while the
> one in gnome-vfs-utils.h was added in gnome-vfs 2.2.0 Imo this function
> should really be removed as soon as possible (before the release of
> gnome 2.2) if that's still doable wrt to the freezes.
> I diffed the 2 functions, and they are exactly the same, moreover, I
> grepped for the new function (gnome_vfs_make_uri_full_from_relative) on
> my whole gnome22 tree, and it's only called from gnome-vfs-utils.c

The gnome-vfs-utils one was added by James Willcox when he was moving eel 
vfs functions to gnome-vfs. 
 
> What do you think about contacting the release team to try to remove
> this function before the official gnome2.2 release ?

Yeah. This might be a good idea.

release-team: What's your opinion of this?

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