Integrating GFC into Xfce

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Jeff Franks wrote:

> Can I use the current GFC scheme (same as gtkmm)  which uses the 
> <major + minor> version numbers as a suffix.
>
> $includedir/xfce4/xfc-4.4/xfc/... for the header files
>
> and
>
> xfccore-4.4.pc and xfcui-4.4.pc
>
> then in Xfce 4.6 it could be
>
> $includedir/xfce4/xfc-4.6/xfc/... for the header files
>
> and
>
> xfccore-4.6.pc and xfcui-4.6.pc

i'd prefer it if you didn't.  i don't really see the point.  for one 
thing, if the libraries aren't versioned such that you can keep 4.4, 
4.6, etc. in parallel, this isn't useful at all, and could cause 
problems.  secondly, we won't be breaking binary (or source) compat 
until 5.0, so there's no need to keep around older headers.

speaking of binary compat... i think you mentioned earlier that your 
wrappers don't include deprecated gtk widgets like GtkOptionMenu.  this 
isn't a problem for us, since, as you mention, we use gtk directly in 
xfce, and not your wrapper.  but still, i think it's generally a bad 
practice.  if people see a binding that claims to be compatible with gtk 
2.4, they'll logically assume that it's also compatible with 2.2 and 
2.0, since gtk itself follows this policy.

    -brian