On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:26 +0100, Dan Winship wrote:
> > 4. It's impossible to create custom Gtk.TreeIter from JS (no
> > constructor), so can't implement a completely custom Gtk.TreeModel.
> 
> I don't know the details of this particular issue, but if it's not
> possible to do at all now, then any change to make it more bindable
> could not possibly break any existing code, so it could happen at any
> time.

IIRC the GtkTreeIter is assumed to not allocate memory. The API and ABI
would need to be altered in order to incorporate it as:

 - 3rd party needs to free GtkTreeIter if it uses one from arbitrary
model (possibly not so important) - i.e. there is API change and ABI.
 - All elements of class struct are already occupied so the size of
struct would need to be change - thus changing the the ABI.

I looked at the issue around Gtk+ 3.2 when someone asked for non-memory
allocating iterators for libgee (I cannot find the request right now but
making it bindable would solve this issue as well).

Best regards

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