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

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:56 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> 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.

How about just adding them as convenience macros instead ?

	Xav