Re: RFC version issues

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

A. Pagaltzis said:
> > optionally warning messages could be printed saying not to use
> > check_version and get_version_info b/c they're almost useless.
> > (they could be useful if you're trying to work around bugs in
> > gtk+ so this probably isn't a good idea)
>
> How about using warnings::register and putting these messages
> into warnings::warnif()? That way I could say
>
>     no warnings 'gtk2-useless';
>     # or
>     no warnings 'gtk2-deprecated';
>     # or even (to get the typical console messages to shut up)
>     no warnings 'gtk2-assert';
>
> An obvious advantage is that using pragma gets us lexical scoping
> for the warnings at no extra cost:

great suggestions, if we go this route (which is the most likely at this
point) then this ought to be looked into.

-rm