Re: Broken custom interface implementations with glib 2.36

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 13:02 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 02:53 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
> > On Monday, April 1, 2013, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >         With glib 2.36, it looks like we might need to change how we
> >         allow gtkmm
> >         apps to derive/implement custom TreeModels and other
> >         interfaces:
> >         https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687659#c6
> >
> >
> > Maybe not.  There may be a way to fix things to allow people to
> > derive/implement the interfaces as they already do even if the glib
> > developers decide to not allow adding interfaces after the class init
> > function runs.  I'll see if I can come up with a patch soon.
> Thanks. That would be great.
>
> I have not actually released glibmm 2.36.0 yet, so it can still get into
> the release if necessary.

glib now has a glibmm-specific workaround to fix this for us. I will
release the .0 stable versions as soon as that is in a tarball version
that we can depend on.

We'll have to look at this again soon though because that workaround
will be removed in the next glib development cycle:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697229#c12


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