Re: [Re: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.2.8]

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk> wrote:
> I wonder if the relevant private derivation in gtkmm needs to be reviewed. 

> reinterpret_casts generally seem like desperation, and changing the access 
> type of the derivation seems a preferable way of ensuring compliance with
the 
> standard.

Yes, we should fix it in gtkmm 2.4, but we can not break API/ABI in gtkmm 2.2.
That's why we used a workaround instead.


Murray Cumming
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