[Mageia-dev] Gtk+3.0 bindings API break, what to do?

Tue Mar 6 21:30:18 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 06/03/12 18:34 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hi!
+> 
+> As per https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657385
+> gtk_menu_popup_for_device() has been renamed to gtk_menu_popup() in
+> introspection, causing at least Menu.popup() in python-gi to break.
+> 
+> Ubuntu has reverted it:
+> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/923171
+> 
+> Attached are alternative one-liner patches to either revert the API
+> break in Gtk+3.0 (dont_rename_annotation.patch, from Ubuntu), or to
+> adapt python-gobject3 to the API change
+> (python-gi-adapt-for-gnome657385.patch, written by me).
+
+My gut feeling would be that your patch is the better and more upstream
+compatible direction here.
+
+I suspect if the Ubuntu approach is used, we'll also have to fix Vala
+stuff in the future too (which will very likely follow the upstream
+direction). Don't know what else would use the introspection stuff.
+
+Col
+
+
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