From gtk-devel  Fri Jan 06 15:13:24 2006
From: Bill Haneman <Bill.Haneman () Sun ! COM>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:13:24 +0000
To: gtk-devel
Subject: Re: Sinkability considered harmful
Message-Id: <43BE8914.8070400 () sun ! com>
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   (federico)

>>API freeze for GNOME 2.14 is approaching quickly.  Can we please back
>>out GObject floating references soon?
>>    
>>
>(timj)
>  
>
>no, there really is no point in that. even if we were to do that, we
>couldn't hold off floating references for non-GtkObjects but GObjects
>anyway. the results would just be more diverse/spread-out, produce
>more special cases for code dealing with object creation and possibly
>be buggy.
>i.e. it'd cause many people more learning/care taking work, and is more
>likely to cause further pain due to an increased likelyness for bugs and
>inconsistencies. i think that's a strong argument towards allowing the
>unification of floating/sink functionality in GObject.
>  
>
This sounds like a "momentum" argument, and as such I think it's not a 
strong one.  Things that are still this controversial should be pushed 
to the +next release cycle IMO.  As a sideliner on this issue (so far), 
this makes me uncomfortable.

Bill
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