Re: Additions to GInterfaces

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 09:55 -0600, Mike Kestner wrote:
> When auditing the new API in 2.8 for Gtk#, I noticed that a property and
> signal were added to the FileChooser interface.  Adding anything to an
> interface is a non-compatible change, because any class implementing the
> interface must be updated to add the new API members.  Whether a C
> compiler would complain or not, conceptually it's a breaking change and
> will most likely cause trouble for any language binding that supports
> interfaces.
>
> Since we haven't added GInterface registration to Gtk# yet, I'm going to
> just let this break occur in Gtk# as well.  It's only non-compatible for
> implementors, not consumers.  We do plan to support GInterface
> registration in an upcoming release though, so I would like to request
> that interface stability be guaranteed in future releases.

Note that GtkFileChooser *implementation* is not a part of the public
GTK+ interface. 

Regards,
						Oen