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

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2008, 11:23 -0400 schrieb Morten Welinder:
> > 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.
> 
> If, say, gtk_hbox_new was to get deprecated and disappear in 3.x then
> it would be near-impossible to write a program to compile against both
> 2.x and 3.x
> 
> Do we really, really need to impose that pain on developers?
> Or am I misunderstanding what is being proposed?

AFAIU, there will be a boolean property eg. on GtkBox which is
automatically set to the correct value if you use the (deprecated in
2.16) GtkH/VBox containers.

Being on 2.16, you can step-by-step replace each one with
gtk_box_new(horiz/vert). Being API-compatible with 2.90 and 3.0, the
code would just work on 3.0 without any further modifications.

Regards,
  Sven