Re: Language bindings and popup_menu and show_help signals

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 13:18 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 18:21 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:59 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:22 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > > > The API cannot change, by definition :)
> > > > 
> > > > What definition? If some G_SIGNAL_ACTION signals should be wrapped, how
> > > > can I know which ones should be and which ones should not be wrapped?
> > > 
> > > We cannot change the public APIs once they are released.  Those signals
> > > are part of the public APIs, so we can't change them.  Just bind them
> > > all.
> > 
> > That's not what we were told. We were told not to wrap keybinding
> > signals. I can't find the email (which I'm pretty sure was from Owen.
> > 
> > We were told that we should never have wrapped these signals:
> > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/gtk/gtktreeview.h?r1=1.56&r2=1.57
> > so the API change should not have affected us. Should I wrap these now?
> 
> Anyone?

I would really really like an answer to this. We seem to need to wrap the 
popup_menu and show_help signals, but I have no confidence that I won't be 
told later that we shouldn't have wrapped them.

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