Re: taking struct _GIOChannel private

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Friday, August 17, 2001, at 08:48  AM, Ron Steinke wrote:

> From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
> > Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:
> > > Well, before we do that, we need to decide if public implementations
> > > of GIOChannel are allowed or not.
> > >
> > > (That is, can I create a new type of GIOChannel in code outside
> > > of GLib?)
> > >
> > > If they are, then we need to leave the GIOChannel structure public for
> > > the structure size.
> >
> > A possible reason for this is to create a gnome-vfs GIOChannel to
> > re-use the UTF-8 conversion code with vfs URIs.
>
> Should I just declare all the GIOChannel fields /*< private >*/,
> and not worry about hiding the structure?
>
> I guess we can still eliminate the private fields from the docs
> using glib-overrides.txt.

Isn't the traditional approach to this sort of thing a separate structure 
with the private fields, and a single pointer field in the visible struct?

    -- Darin