Re: Hard API freeze soon

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 13:11 -0500, Carl Nygard wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 16:07 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On March 9th, we'll release gtkmm 2.6.0, as per the schedule:
> > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.9/
> > 
> > We are already past the API freeze, but after March 9th there will
> > really be absolutely no chance to change the API. So, please do
> > experiment with the new 2.6 API now. See NEWS to see what's new.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure if this would be allowable, but would you consider adding:
> 
> Glib::RefPtr<T_CppObject>::operator T_CppObject*() const
> 
> I've found I needed to get the raw pointer on occasion,

Not until you tell us what the occasion is, because this would encourage
people to do this when they shouldn't, leading to all kinds of confusion
and brokenness. So far we know of none.

>  and I wind up
> using operator->() which is ugly.  I'd even settle for a get_ptr()
> function if the cast operator is considered too dangerous.

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