Re: Freeze break request: Some API additions
- From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>
- To: Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
- Cc: Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>, gnome-release-team <release-team gnome org>, "language-bindings gnome org" <language-bindings gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Freeze break request: Some API additions
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 07:25:45 +0000
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:39 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:34 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:21 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > > > Of course, all of the above will be tested as part of our test suites.
> > >
> > > Which of these can not wait for 2.11/12?
> >
> > Well, *technically* they could all wait for the next cycle. But it
> > would be really tragic if our users weren't able to use those methods
> > for half a year just because we were blind or the lacked the time to
> > implement them.
> >
> > > These additions will not disturb existing applications, but I worry
> > > that you don't have time to check that the API is correct before it's
> > > really frozen.
> >
> > I think that's unfounded because we have tests (included in the patches)
> > for every change that ensure that they all do exactly what they're
> > supposed to do.
>
> You can never be sure that you've tested everything, but that's far more
> than I expected, so here's 1 of 2 approvals. Thanks for being careful.
Its very late in the game for API additions, its a lot of code, but you
do have good test coverage and keeping up with new APIs is the name of
the game for language bindings, so ... Approval 2 of 2.
Cheers,
Mark.
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