Re: Sinkability considered harmful

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

  (federico)

> > API freeze for GNOME 2.14 is approaching quickly.  Can we please back
> > out GObject floating references soon?
> >    
> (timj)
>  
>
> no, there really is no point in that. even if we were to do that, we
> couldn't hold off floating references for non-GtkObjects but GObjects
> anyway. the results would just be more diverse/spread-out, produce
> more special cases for code dealing with object creation and possibly
> be buggy.
> i.e. it'd cause many people more learning/care taking work, and is more
> likely to cause further pain due to an increased likelyness for bugs and
> inconsistencies. i think that's a strong argument towards allowing the
> unification of floating/sink functionality in GObject.
>  
This sounds like a "momentum" argument, and as such I think it's not a 
strong one.  Things that are still this controversial should be pushed 
to the +next release cycle IMO.  As a sideliner on this issue (so far), 
this makes me uncomfortable.

Bill