Re: taking struct _GIOChannel private

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ron Steinke <rsteinke w-link net> writes:

> From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
> >
> > Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes: 
> > > Well, before we do that, we need to decide if public implementations 
> > > of GIOChannel are allowed or not.
> > > 
> > > (That is, can I create a new type of GIOChannel in code outside
> > > of GLib?)
> > > 
> > > If they are, then we need to leave the GIOChannel structure public for
> > > the structure size. 
> > > 
> >
> > A possible reason for this is to create a gnome-vfs GIOChannel to
> > re-use the UTF-8 conversion code with vfs URIs.
> 
> Should I just declare all the GIOChannel fields /*< private >*/,
> and not worry about hiding the structure?
> 
> I guess we can still eliminate the private fields from the docs
> using glib-overrides.txt.

If marked as /*< private >*/ they won't appear in the docs.

(That's actually the entire reason for /*< private >*/ ...)

Regards,
                                        Owen