[Cairo] Cairo API change: cairo_get_* -> cairo_current_*

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Thu Sep 4 13:16:23 PDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:24, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Sep 4, Carl Worth wrote:
>  > 1) I lifted some of Richard's work on the slim macros to provide
>  >    aliases so the deprecated function names will work, but with useful
>  >    compile-time warnings. 
> 
> Keith pointed out that my magic DEPRECATED macro preserved
> source-level compatibility but broke previously compiled code still
> expecting the old symbols. I've now fixed it so that the original
> deprecated symbols will still be available.

I might suggest simply breaking stuff and letting people fix.
Cairo isn't mature enough yet to clutter the source code with
fancy ways of doing deprecation, IMHO.

Regards,
						Owen






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