Re: glib: changes to the g*_array API.

[Josh MacDonald <jmacd paris CS Berkeley EDU>]

Quoting Sebastian Wilhelmi (wilhelmi@ira.uka.de):
> My opinion of course is: If you're sure about it, break it to make it
> consistent. Look at dos/windows and their 'never break compatibility'
> (which obviously isn't working on the other hand, see ms-word formats). In
> open source this breakage isn't a problem, because everybody can download
> the newest version of lib and prog and such get a working copy. But OTOH
> I'm not in the position to give advise on that .... ;-)

No, I agree with you.  As long as there is no silent breakage, but I
still prefer two functions.

> (still waiting to see, why this doesn't apply to GArray)

There was no provided "remove" function for GArray, so the issue had
not come up.  It should be added, etc.


-josh