Re: [gtk-list] Re: Tracking object deletion

[Tim Janik <Tim Janik Hamburg Netsurf DE>]

On 11 Dec 1997, Owen Taylor wrote:

> ........
> 
> Wow, I really strayed off track. I guess the short answer is - for

yep, but at least from my side it was much apprechiated ;)

> now, use "destroy" and warn users off referring to the object in an
> installed "destroy" handler. In the future, you probably shouldn't
> have such a thing.

> P.S.
> 
> While I'm on the subject, I'll bring up a related issue:
> 
> When should Marius's patches go in? (See his post a few weeks ago for
> more details) It will break most existing apps in a few easy-to-fix
> ways, and possibly in more subtle ways if they tried to do
> sophisticated things. (But if they did so, they are probably broken,
> since GTK can't do those sophisticated things now).
> 

i'd vote for putting it in quite soon, in the end it will fix
more bugs than introduce and i'm talking about the GIMP side here.

> The looming specter is the release of the GIMP. It's probably better
> to make the changes now, while the GIMP is (barely) prelease, then
> break compatibility later. But the opposing view is: "things almost
> work now for the GIMP, wait until later, to do things that might
> introduce bugs"

i don't think the "let's not hassle with bugs we don't see right know"
attitude would be the correct one before an 1.0 release.

> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen

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