Re: Make GCancellable subclassable?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:30 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 10:36 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > > I'd also welcome if GCancellable and GInitable could be moved to
> > > GObject. They are potentially useful outside GIO.
> > 
> > Why can't you not use them from GIO? GIO is a general library that has
> > the same availability as gobject (ship in same tarball) and no
> > significant extra cost (gtk+ links to it anyway).
> 
> It doesn't matter on the desktop of course. But for embedded devices GIO
> is often not useful. Still GCancellable and GInitable would be
> potentially useful. And both class feel semantically closer to GObject
> than to GIO.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm not sure it is ABI compatible to
move a symbol between libraries like that.