Re: Independent image loaders in gdk-pixbuf

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de> writes:
> Since these interfaces can not be guaranteed to be 100% stable (in
> fact, the collection stuff which I talked about last week had to do
> some changes to the image module SPI), it will be protected by
> #ifdef GDK_PIXBUF_ENABLE_BACKEND (like e.g. the Pango backend
> interface) and the GdkPixbufModule class will get some padding.

Maybe we should have some checksum enabling us to detect modules that
were compiled against a too-old gdk-pixbuf-io?

Could be a simple GDK_PIXBUF_IO_INTERFACE_VERSION that gets compiled
into the module then checked on module load.

Havoc