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--- On Sun, 6/29/08, muppet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: muppet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Standalone Pango > To: "gtk2-perl List" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 10:36 AM > On Jun 29, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote: > > > /* i love nasty ugly hacks for backwards compat... > Glib::UInt used > * to be misspelled as Glib::Uint. by registering both > names to the > * same gtype, we get the mappings for two packages to one > gtype, but > * only one mapping (the last and correct one) from type > to package. > */ > G_LOCK (types_by_package); > g_hash_table_insert (types_by_package, > "Glib::Uint", > (gpointer) G_TYPE_UINT); > G_UNLOCK (types_by_package); > > (Please note the sarcasm in the comment.) Is GNOME/gtk+/gtk-perl all like that ? I mean, is it the accepted practice to write ugly backward compatibility hacks instead of fixing the root cause ? Thanks, Sergei. _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
