Re: [patch] Make the volume argument const in most functions of gnome-vfs-volume.[ch]



On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 10:12 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patch makes the volume argument const in most functions of
> gnome-vfs-volume.[ch]
> 
> This doesn't break the API, however if applied, it won't be possible to
> revert it without breaking the API.
> 
> This fixes some warnings in applications.

How did the application ever get a const volume object? Does any of our
API return that?

Its a bit weird to have a const GObject, because none of the GObject
methods take const objects, so you can't use it for much. Ref/unref
takes non-const args, so you can't even memory manage them.

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