Re: File name encoding and GTK ABI compatibility on Win32

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 07/12/04 00:34, Mike Hearn wrote:

> As far as making a mess of the header files, I don't think it's such a 
> big deal. It typically involves wrapping new functionality in an 
> #ifdef. For Tors need, you could do:
>
> #if (GTK_TARGET_MINOR >= 6)
> #  define U(x) x ## _utf8
> #else
> #  define U(x) x
> #endif
>
> void U(gtk_some_function)(GtkFoo *foo, gboolean bar);
>
> This is slightly ugly, but not hugely so - it's still easily readable 
> - and the portability gains are useful.

Note that annotations like this would likely cause problems for tools 
like gtk-doc that parse header files.  So there are more than just 
aesthetic complaints about making the headers unreadable.

James.

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