Re: [Fwd: Re: Commit (STABLE): Require gucharmap < 1.3.0]

From: Marc Maurer (j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl)
Date: Sat Feb 21 2004 - 15:44:43 EST

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    Hi Noah,

    Thanks for the quick response...

    > gucharmap is part of the gnome desktop, but not part of the
    > developer platform, so the guarantees about API/ABI
    > compatibility donĒt apply.

    Great :-/

    > In fact there have been breakages
    > in almost every release. I figure itĒs not a huge problem
    > since AFAIK abiword is the only program (other than
    > gucharmap) that uses libgucharmap, and the abi folks hadnĒt
    > complained until now. IĒm willing to discuss setting a
    > policy.

    Well, what about a policy to make the releases API compatible? :-) We
    can't ifdef our code for every release of gucharmap (well, we can, but
    we won't).

    It would make life much better for the application developer (read: us),
    and for the user, since we don't have to fallback to our builtin, less
    featurefull, character map.

    Cheers,
      Marc

    > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 19:33:20 +0100, Marc Maurer wrote:
    > > Hi Noah (and Jeff),
    > >
    > > While porting AbiWord to GTK2.4 using the latest GNOME Dev release
    > > (2.5.5), I came accross an API incompatibility in gucharmap.
    > > Somewhere between the gucharmap release 1.0.0 and 1.3.0, the function
    > >
    > > GtkWidget * gucharmap_charmap_new (void);
    > >
    > > changed to
    > >
    > > GtkWidget * gucharmap_charmap_new (GuchapmapChapters *chapters);
    > >
    > > This issue should be fixed imo, since GNOME releases are supposed to be
    > > API (and ABI) compatible.
    > >
    > > Cheers,
    > > Marc Maurer
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > --
    > > Marc Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl>
    >
    > Content-Description: Doorgestuurd bericht - Re: Commit (STABLE): Require gucharmap < 1.3.0
    > > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:25:37 +1100 (EST)
    > > Subject: Re: Commit (STABLE): Require gucharmap < 1.3.0
    > > From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
    > > To: Marc Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl>
    > > Cc: abiword-dev_at_abisource.com
    > >
    > > > Require gucharmap < 1.3.0 (yes, lt)
    > > >
    > > > CVS:
    > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > > > CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically
    > > > CVS:
    > > > CVS: Committing in .
    > > > CVS:
    > > > CVS: Modified Files:
    > > > CVS: Tag: ABI-2-0-0-STABLE
    > > > CVS: ./ac-helpers/abi-gucharmap.m4
    > > > CVS:
    > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > > >
    > >
    > > This really sucks. Gnome is meant to ABI and API stable over the whole 2.x
    > > series. guncharmap is now part of the gnome platform so it is meant to
    > > conform. Send an email to the gucharmap maintainer reminding him of this.
    > > Might be worth CCing Jeff Waugh too.
    > >
    > > Martin
    > >
    > > > --
    > > > Marc Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl>
    > > >
    > > >
    > > 

    -- 
Marc Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl>

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