Re: Binary compatability

[Marius Vollmer <mvo zagadka ping de>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> 
> > what's the current word on binary backwards compatability in Gtk?
> 
> Binary compatibility in the 1.1 series is long gone.

Ok, fine.
  
> > I have been away from the sources for a long time now and I want to
> > work my way back in.  The first thing I have in mind is to clean up
> > the object/type system and in the process make it fit for defining new
> > Gtk classes from Scheme and other dynamic languages.
> 
> The main sticking point I know of is overriding the default handlers,
> since those are raw function pointers.

Yeah, that's my impression, too.

> I'll be curious to see what you come up with.

Me too.  But I think it will be quite straightforward.

> (It is getting a bit late in the cycle for 1.2 to make major changes
> to the type system, but if they are fairly straightforward.)

I'm more thinking about adding some things, mostly documentation, and
I want to see if I like the way the gtk.defs file is generated.