Re: [g-a-devel]ATK API change suggestion/request (oops)

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Bill,

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 20:28, Bill Haneman wrote:
> If/when we fix this it will create a binary incompatibility in
> AtkObjectClass.  One possibility that would preserve API compat for one
> release, just to ease rebuilding pains for GNOME 2 testers, would be to
> add atk_component_get_layer (AtkComponent *c) and
> atk_component_get_mdi_zorder (AtkComponent *c) and deprecate the
> AtkObject equivalents, with the intent of removing the deprecated API in
> the next weekly release.

	My feeling would be that as long as we don't screw people up and delay
important testing etc. that the re-organization makes sense. It is
surely ok to add the more intuitive atk_component_ interfaces for these
bits now; and as you suggest we can deal with removing the others later
I suppose.

	The problem is that this adds a rather nasty bincompat breakage as
well; if you're going to do this it might also be an idea to add some
gpointer dummy[2] things to your Class structures to future proof us
some more.

	I'd like some more assuring noises from Jody et al. though really -
Jody ?

	Regards,

		Michael.

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