Re: Sinkability considered harmful

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Tim Janik wrote:
[...]

Firstly Tim,
    I'd like to publicly apologize for bashing floating
GObjects as hard as I did, I spontainiously felt very
strongly about an issue and completely unloaded the whole
nine yards into my email composer and hit "send", I was
out of place for this argument; I'm sure that you wouldn't
be around freely contributing code if you didn't have the
best of intentions for GTK+.

[...]
> Floating Flag Threads:
> - thread start: "Re: GObject reference counting / lack of "sink" issue"
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-September/msg00165.html

This one here back in september puts the argument for floating
GObjects on the table (afaics the others are just implementation
details).

[ clipped from earlier in this thread: Tim Janik says: ]
> your battle against allowing floating flags and sinking aside from the
> GtkObject hierarchy is already lost, such flags have been added/are 
?> > being added to custom object implementations already (e.g.
> gimp_item_sink()).

And with that I hang my head and go about my business.

Cheers,
                       -Tristan