ABI/API break libxfce4util for 4.10?

[Natanael Copa]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:39:38 +0200
Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> 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.

ABI changes are normally no problem for us packagers, more work maybe,
but rarely problem.

Breaking API once in a while helps getting rid of old cruft and is a
good thing. And it looks trivial to patch things in case it does break
things.

Go for it!

-nc
Alpine Linux XFCE packager