Re: Make GCancellable subclassable?

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Alexander Larsson<alexl redhat com> wrote:

>> It doesn't matter on the desktop of course. But for embedded devices GIO
>> is often not useful. Still GCancellable and GInitable would be
>> potentially useful. And both class feel semantically closer to GObject
>> than to GIO.
>
> I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm not sure it is ABI compatible to
> move a symbol between libraries like that.
>

There is also the practical problem that getting things into gobject
is next to impossible, unless we find someone who is willing to start
actively maintaining it. The current situation with useful patches
rotting in bugzilla forever is not healthy..