Re: Standalone Pango

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

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--- On Sun, 6/29/08, muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:

> From: muppet <scott asofyet org>
> Subject: Re: Standalone Pango
> To: "gtk2-perl List" <gtk-perl-list gnome org>
> Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 10:36 AM
> On Jun 29, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:

>       /* i love nasty ugly hacks for backwards compat...
> Glib::UInt used
>        * to be misspelled as Glib::Uint.  by registering both
> names to the
>        * same gtype, we get the mappings for two packages to one
> gtype, but
>        * only one mapping (the last and correct one) from type
> to package.
>        */
>       G_LOCK (types_by_package);
>       g_hash_table_insert (types_by_package,
> "Glib::Uint",
>                            (gpointer) G_TYPE_UINT);
>       G_UNLOCK (types_by_package);
>
> (Please note the sarcasm in the comment.)

Is GNOME/gtk+/gtk-perl all like that ?

I mean, is it the accepted practice to write ugly backward compatibility
hacks instead of fixing the root cause ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.