Re: [Fwd: [PATCH] gnome-keyring: s/availible/available/]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 10:52 -0800, Evan Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:08:24PM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > As mentioned below, there seems to be a spelling error in the gnome-
> > keyring public API, but we're past the API freeze. What should we do
> > about this?
> 
> For what it's worth, I think the technical solution is keep the
> misspelled function, but to make gnome_keyring_is_available a small
> wrapper around gnome_keyring_is_availible.  Then change the docs to
> never refer to the misspelled version.  Then your new release doesn't
> break compatibility, and in some future release you can drop it.

This is pretty useless for a library with no stable release and one
user. It just adds bloat for no real reason. In general, its a good
solution though.