Re: gtkmm-4.0: Remove Gtk::Application::create() with argc and argv?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 19:16 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> gtk+-4.0 and gtkmm-4.0 are future API/ABI-breaking versions of gtk+
> and gtkmm.
> gtk_init() in gtk+-4.0 does not take argc and argv arguments any
> more. Therefore Gtk::Application::create() does not use those
> arguments. They are just saved and used by Gtk::Application::run().
> There are run() overloads that also take argc and argv arguments.
> Removing that create() overload and the corresponding constructor
> would result in the cleanest and most logical API. A drawback is that
> it requires an extra change in many (probably most) gtkmm
> applications when they are upgraded to gtkmm-4.0. For instance in
> more than a hundred example programs in gtkmm-documentation.
> I suggest that we remove Gtk::Application::create(argc, argv,
> application_id, flags) despite the drawback.
> Comments?

The change in application code is at least simple. It seems fine to me.
Thanks.

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