ABI/API break libxfce4util for 4.10?

Christoph Mende angelos at gentoo.org
Tue Jun 14 21:25:55 CEST 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 19:39 +0200, Nick Schermer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Devs,
> >
> > There are a couple of deprecated api's in libxfce4util and also some
> > changes that will break the abi. I'd like to merge those for 4.10. The
> > things that are changed do not affect the Xfce core and most likely
> > also none of the other modules, however to do this safely the abi
> > version number needs to be bumped (== so-name change).
> >
> > Anybody against this merge?
> >
> > http://git.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4util/log/?h=nick/abi-changes
> 
> On a side note; packager can also comment on this.

Wanted to do this anyway ;)

I don't really see a problem here, since only dead plugins are affected,
this can be seen as some kind of spring cleaning... in the summer.
So the Gentoo vote on this: DO IT!
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