Re: Problem when reparenting gtktrees

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Darin Fisher <dfisher jagger me berkeley edu> writes:
> Just to satisfy my curiosity... when you say that GtkTree is
> broken, do you mean that the interface is broken?  or that the
> implementation is broken?  I understand that a poor interface
> can make for a poor implementation, but what I'm really
> wondering is whether or not the interface actually precludes
> a functional implementation?
> 

AFAIK only the implementation is broken (though the interface
precludes an _efficient_ implementation, the only possible
implementation won't scale to very large trees). But it's nontrivial
to fix the implementation, and the interface, while possible to
implement, isn't very good.

Havoc