Re: Fwd: Freeze Break request for gtkmm (API)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

By the way, gtkmm 2.12.0 will be out with GNOME 2.20 on September 19th
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/

So you (all) have only a few days left to tell us about any last API
problems. It's no good being upset about them afterwards.

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 11:34 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> FYI, I sent this request to the GNOME release team but forgot to copy
> the gtkmm list
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma gnome org>
> Date: Aug 29, 2007 11:33 AM
> Subject: Freeze Break request for gtkmm (API)
> To: "release-team gnome org" <release-team gnome org>
> 
> 
> I'd like to request a API freeze break for gtkmm to add some new API
> (and deprecate the old versions).  The issue is that some of the gdkmm
> cairo helper functions take a reference to a RefPtr instead of a const
> reference.  This makes it impossible to call these functions from
> within other functions that accept const references (see the bug
> report [1] for more information).  I have attached a patch to the bug
> that adds overloaded functions that accept a const reference and
> deprecated the old versions.  In addition I've fixed a TODO in the
> source code, so the new versions of rectangle() and region() that take
> a const reference are now called add_rectangle_to_path() and
> add_region_to_path().  Existing code will continue to work without
> modifications since no API is being removed, only deprecated.  Murray
> has expressed his approval for the patch in the bug report, so I just
> need release-team approval before applying it.
> 
> thanks,
> Jonathon
> 
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471397
> 
> --
> jonner
> 
> 
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