Re: Deprecations

[Thomas Leonard <tal ecs soton ac uk>]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:41:29 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
[...]
> What we are doing in Pango and Gtk+ right now is to enable
> G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED if and only if the major.minor version of
> the available glib version is the same as the one we require.
> 
> I also like if there was a way to detect when the required
> version of a module (glib and Gtk+ mainly) should be increased in
> an application.  But that requires marking all the API with
> macros and version number that I know is not going to happen...

The easy way to get the same effect is to just change the version of the
headers you compile against. We have some simple tools which let you pick
the versions of GTK and GLib you want to compile against, download the
appropriate headers (into a local cache for next time), and run the build
against them.

The process is described in a blog post here:

 http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/node/289

Would there be any interest in hosting the header archives on gtk.org?


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