Re: API freeze break request

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:12 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 	The python GConf binding is missing a wrapping for GConfEngine, which
> isn't used very often but I came across a need for it while writing a
> little admin tool for GConf.
> 
> 	See the patch below. The pygtk maintainers seem to be okay about
> including it, so long as the release team approve.
> 
> 	See:
> 
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164059
> 
> 	for more details. Patch appended. Its pretty straightforward and
> shouldn't impact any existing APIs.

Can't you work around this in some way? For instance, can't you include
your own local wrapper of this class? I'm not happy about adding a whole
class after an API freeze, because we'll have no chance to fix it if
it's not perfect.

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