Hi,
> While, in theory, I agree that having compatibility cruft inside a
> software package is bad, I think breaking compatibility deep within a
> feature freeze was a very bad idea.
>
> I thought different this afternoon when I could just enable
> GIMP_COMPAT_CRUFT_STH, but it just turned out that this define only
> catches very few of the API changes.
There were no API changes at all. All of the names that are standard
now have been around for a long time and the only thing we did was to
reverse the logic of the COMPAT_CRUFT defines. What was
#ifndef GIMP_DISABLE_COMPAT_CRUFT
before, has become
#ifdef GIMP_ENABLE_COMPAT_CRUFT
now. That's it! Nothing else changed!!
> So, in effect, the recent undiscussed changes completely break the API and
> make it impossible to maintain a plug-in for both 1.0 and 1.2 versions.
Are you sure? Why does it work for the gimp-print plug-in then?
Salut, Sven
