Re: The storage interface cleanup - incredible

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar maurer-it com>]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> Dietmar Maurer <dietmar maurer-it com> writes:
>
> > Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> >
> > > In fact, the Stream interface is almost certainly going to change for
> > > GNOME 2.0 anyway, if we follow the wise advise of the Sun people who
> > > pointed out that factoring the interface into InputStream,
> > > OutputStream and Seekable is a better way to go. So you can't even
> > > pretend this particular change will prevent interface breakage down
> > > the line.
> >
> > I am not convinced that the purposed splitting is a better way to go.
> > Anyway, the advantage is better interface reusability. We can reach
> > this if we split the interface (like sun suggested) and combine the parts
> > using multiple inheritance (which is supported by CORBA).
> > This change will not break anything.
>
> (Technical point, not a comment on the merits of Dietmar's changes)
>
> Splitting and combining using multiple inheritance will not in fact
> result in something that is binary and source compatible for all
> languages, unless I massively misunderstand how CORBA mappings for
> various languages work. It will definitely not be compatible on the
> server side.

Maybe you have to rename something, but that is all. You can use the
same code on the server side as before. There is no semantic change.
(or do I miss something?)