Re: Removing (yes) unloved API/ABI from gnome-vfsmm

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi Murray,

Le jeudi 13 juillet 2006, à 19:24, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> Since gnome-vfs removed some functions [1], gnome-vfsmm is pretty much
> forced to remove the API that wraps these functions. I hate to break
> ABI, but I really doubt that anybody is using this part of gnome-vfsmm,
> and I think people will thank us for not depending on bonobo.
> 
> But this is me asking for GNOME release-team permission retrospectively.
> Any objections?

I'm wondering about three things:

 + "This means that you may break API/ABI in the next schedule only if
    you create a new version of the API which is parallel-installable
    with the older version."
   http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleRequirements/PlaformBindings
   Is it possible to do this?

 + Forgetting about ABI, is it possible to keep the API (with some
   #define, maybe)?

 + If someone complains about this breaking an app, what will you do?

Also, I'm still wondering if what the gnome-vfs maintainers did is okay
with our API/ABI compatibility rules. It did break stuff (bindings :-)),
so...

Thanks,

Vincent

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