Deadline rc2

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:57:54 +0200
Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at moongroup.com> wrote:

...
> 
> Hmm, it is probably not worth it, but I just thought of something to
> prevent old API plugins from being loaded and then crash the panel.
> 
> The problem is that the new API has changed the prototype of one
> function, but it doesn't change the symbol name. The API version is
> increased, but this is automatically picked up by the plugin when
> recompiling (I'll need to think about that after 4.0, it is too
> automatic now). Since the symbol name did not change the old API
> plugin compiles without error.
> 
> Now, the 'solution' is to rename that symbol which will make compiling
> or at least loading the old module fail, thus preventing a crash.
> 
> All modules would need to be updated again though (well a simple
> search and replace will do the trick).
> 
> I didn't think there would be any more third-party plugins, but that
> mail yesterday proved me wrong. So, what do you think, is it worth the
> trouble?
> 

Oh, and I am prepared to do the work to update all modules in our CVS
and on xfce-goodies. It is not difficult but it will take some time.