Re: Glibmm-2.52: Shall StreamIOChannel and IOChannel vfuncs be undeprecated?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 13:46 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> This concerns glibmm-2.52, the future API/ABI-breaking release.
> The whole StreamIOChannel class is deprecated. So are all virtual
> functions in IOChannel. A now removed comment explained why:
> This feature of being able to implement a custom Glib::IOChannel is
> deprecated in glibmm 2.2.  The vfunc interface has not yet stabilized
> enough to allow that -- the C++ wrapper went in by pure accident.
> Is "not yet stabilized enough" still true? The latest ABI change in
> the vfuncs was made in February 2002. I can certainly remove
> StreamIOChannel and the vfuncs in glibmm 2.52, but wouldn't it be at
> least as good to keep them and undeprecate them? IMO the comment
> about not yet stabilized vfuncs is obsolete.

Thanks for investigating.

Would it be useful? Could we even create a test case showing how to use
this feature?

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