Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2008-09-23

["Morten Welinder" <mortenw gnome org>]

> * Deprecate the H/V split and add orientation instead
> + mitch has a patch deprecating all the H/V classes
> + adds a constructor for base classes
> + defaults can be fixed
> + subclassing is easier
> + change orientation at runtime
> + massive deprecation at branch for 2.90
> + everyone agrees
> ACTION: mitch files bugs with the various patches


This late-cycle deprecation will make it hard to write code that is
kosher in both the old and the new world.  That is really a bad idea,
even compared to the regular deprecation pain.

Morten