Re: Fwd: gtk+ API change; who should fix it? (A.k.a. Why isn't GNOME 2.19.4 released yet?)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 10:46 +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 10:27 +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> 
> >> b) GtkTooltips is going to be deprecated in 2.12 anyways, so there
> >>     is little use in continuing to use it anyway.
> >> c) note that the actual compilation changes could easily be ironed out
> >>     by Gtk+ by doing s/_tips_data_list/tips_data_list/ but was introduced
> >>     deliberately, to catch remaining tips_data_list uses in third-party
> >>     code which should be removed now, since tips_data_list became a
> >>     mere alias for NULL for future Gtk+ versions.
> >
> > When was GtkTooltips::tips_data_list deprecated, if it was every public
> > API?
> 
> reppeating what i wrote above, GtkTooltips will be deprecated in 2.12
> in favour of GtkTooltip.

So, this is deprecation with a break. Breaking normally follows
deprecation after a delay. Deprecation with a break is just a break.

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