Re: Why keysym constants in gdk/gdkkeysyms.h are defined as macros, not as an enum?

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 27.06.2012 08:09, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> > Well, using enums would make wrapping keysyms much easier on the gtkmm side.
>
> It will also help other bindings to stop doing things such as this:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/tree/gi/overrides/keysyms.py

Why is this needed?  The GDK_KEY_x constants are introspected properly 
and are available as Gdk.KEY_x.

Changing the defines to enums would change the representation that 
gobject-introspection produces and would thus constitute a break of the 
IABI, as Colin called it -- the introspection ABI.  The positive effects 
of such a change should therefore be significant enough to outweigh this 
downside.