Re: Privatizing 'linc' ...

Bill Haneman <[email protected]> 29 May 2003 15:06:12 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.components,gmane.comp.gnome.orbit.general,gmane.comp.gnome.desktop
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On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 14:38, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Havoc,
> 
> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:42, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Concur that this is the right approach - sed-job it, suck it into
> > orbit, drop orbit dependency on linc, leave the linc ABI sitting there
> > for anyone who was using it.
> 
> 	I'll do this then; hopefully we can bin linc soonish.

No one ever answered my question about what gnopernicus should use
instead...

I don't like the idea of using deprecated API in a new module.

- Bill

> > Though, aren't there APIs in ORBit that expose the linc dep? 
> > I seem to recall ORBit_small_get_connection() or something exposed
> > it. If so that's a big wrench in this plan...
> 
> 	It exposed an opaque ORBitConnection handle as I recall; so - that
> shouldn't be too much of a problem (in theory).
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
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