Re: is gtk_timeout_remove gone?

[Dan Mills <thunder ximian com>]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 05:41  PM, Joe Shaw wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:37, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > Will do so next time. It is a weakness of our deprecation system that 
> > it
> > can only break the build, not give you warnings.
>
> Thanks.  We were arguing about this over lunch today.  I think ideally
> the tinderbox would try to do the build with deprecation enabled and
> then try again with it off, and if it works the second time to color 
> the
> build orange or something like that.

Yeah, but currently that would require some magic that I don't want to 
write.. there are bigger fish to fry in tinderboxland ;-)  For now, I 
think it's acceptable to just remove the module that breaks from the 
build temporarily and mail the maintainer to fix the problem.

> Of course, this has the potential
> for making the build take up to twice as long if many modules were 
> using
> some deprecated functions, but in reality it would probably only affect
> one or two modules at most.  And someone (well, Dan. :) would have to 
> do
> the work to implement it, which probably isn't easy. :)

Worst case would be O(n^2) where n=num modules, because the build must 
be restarted from scratch if it dies.

-Dan