Re: Freeze break request: Some API additions

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:39 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:34 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:21 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 
> > > > Of course, all of the above will be tested as part of our test suites.
> > > 
> > > Which of these can not wait for 2.11/12?
> > 
> > Well, *technically* they could all wait for the next cycle.  But it
> > would be really tragic if our users weren't able to use those methods
> > for half a year just because we were blind or the lacked the time to
> > implement them.
> > 
> > > These additions will not disturb existing applications, but I worry
> > > that you don't have time to check that the API is correct before it's
> > > really frozen.
> > 
> > I think that's unfounded because we have tests (included in the patches)
> > for every change that ensure that they all do exactly what they're
> > supposed to do.
> 
> You can never be sure that you've tested everything, but that's far more
> than I expected, so here's 1 of 2 approvals. Thanks for being careful.

	Its very late in the game for API additions, its a lot of code, but you
do have good test coverage and keeping up with new APIs is the name of
the game for language bindings, so ... Approval 2 of 2.

Cheers,
Mark.