Re: GNOME 2.0 Developer Platform Alpha 2, "Antipodean Mornings"

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming) writes: 
> gnomemm 1.2 contained a lot of copied private gnome-libs code beause of this:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtk--/gnome--/gnome--/construct_copies.cc#22
> 
> This doesn't seem like a good solution.

It's not perfect, but it's good enough. Occasional hacks are a
necessary consequence of stable APIs. (Stable APIs are also what make
hacks possible, and hacks are what make finished apps possible.)

> Surely I at least have a couple of weeks to get this fixed? It doesn't
> break the source or binary API?

You might have a few days, depending on the library.  Properties do
count as new API.

Havoc