Re: GTK+-2.4.0 released

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 20:36, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> Owen Taylor wrote:
> > New drop-down selection widget
> >
> >  The GtkComboBox widget replaces the old GtkOptionMenu and 
> >  GtkCombo widgets with a single unified appearance 
> >  and programming interface for both editable and non-editable
> >  dropdowns. Other enhancements provided include customizability
> >  of the main display widget and grid layouts for the drop-down 
> >  menu.
>
> I haven't looked at it yet, but I'd like to comment on your deprecation
> policy.  It seems somewhat too aggressive to me.  It is quite difficult
> to write a program that would compile fine with all GTK+ 2.x versions
> with *_DISABLE_DEPRECATED defines.  I cannot use GtkOptionMenu because
> it is deprecated since 2.4.  I cannot use GtkComboBox either, because
> it didn't exist before 2.4.

I don't really see the point in the exercise.

G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED basically is a way of making sure that you are
using the recommended functions and widgets with the current version
of GTK+. I suppose we could have versioned deprecations 
G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_2_2, but that would be a whole lot more work
to maintain..

If you want to make sure your stuff is working with 2.2, presumably
you are compiling and testing with 2.2. Turning on
G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED when you are doing that is fine if you only
care about stuff we deprecated for 2.2.

Note that you should never ship tarballs with G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
on, since who knows what will be deprecated in 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, and
because of the way G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED (prototypes are no longer
in the headers), new deprecations could cause subtle mis-compilation.

Regards,
                                                Owen