Re: Freeze break request for glibmm API

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le lundi 10 septembre 2007 à 16:52 +0200, Daniel Elstner a écrit :
> Hi Release Team,
> 
> I'd like to request a break of the API freeze for module glibmm.  The
> newly added GRegex wrapper has a couple of methods which don't follow
> our usual policy of implementing convenience methods as overloads,
> rather than giving them different names as in the original API.  This is
> the bug with patch, approved by Murray Cumming:
> 
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474134
> 
> Glib::Regex is completely new API and hardly used by anyone yet.  Since
> it'll have to stay ABI compatible after the release I'd like to make it
> as clean as possible while we can still change it.  Although existing
> code (if any) would be broken by the change, porting to the revised API
> amounts a trivial search/replace cycle.

Approval 1 of 2.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
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