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

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thursday 02 October 2003 4:06 pm, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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.

The easiest approach is to change the private inheritance to protected 
inheritance. Does that break ABI (it shouldn't break API)?

Chris.