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

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:31 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > * 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.

I don't think the minutes reflect what was said in the meeting here.
My understanding was hat the H/V subclasses get deprecated as soon
as the code to enable flipping in their parent classes is in SVN.

ciao,
--mitch