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

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

> Why not simply keep gtk_hbox_new and gtk_vbox_new?
> 
> I can see a number of reasons for doing so:
> 
> 1) They are used all over the place ...

Yes.  If these functions are _not_ retained, in practical terms it 
means that almost everyone who maintains a GTK app (and wants it 
to build against the maximum range of GTK versions) has to write 
their own such functions, which is surely less efficient.

Allin Cottrell