Proposals for 3.0.0 API changes

[Eric Richie]

How will this affect the addition of the media API?  It's already using
GObject and will hopefully be stable and working sometime between 2.4.0 and
3.0.0.

-Eric

(Apologies for the top-post...)

On 12/30/07 10:02 PM, "John Bailey" <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:

> In the msn-pecan thread, Gary and I agreed that an API freeze after 2.4.0 in
> order to implement struct member hiding would be a good way to help us on the
> road to having libpurple's objects implemented purely as GObjects.  Ka-Hing
> voiced support for the proposal.
> 
> To that end, I propose a few changes, some of which have already been proposed
> previously by Sadrul, Richard, Will, Gary, and probably others.  3.0.0 is
> obviously the perfect time for massive changes such as these, because they
> will
> break API and ABI compatibility with 2.x:
> 
>   * Kill the Gaim compatibility headers.  Plugin authors have now had almost 8
> months to update their code--this is ample time.
> 
>   * We have some deprecated functions in libpurple, mainly some logging stuff
> and the stuff deprecated by Will's disconnect reason stuff.  Kill all
> deprecated
> API.
> 
> These next two are far less important and could be overlooked if desired:
> 
>   * The plugin prefs API and the request fields API overlap.  Merge them into
> a
> simpler, more coherent API.
> 
>   * I'd like to rename the purple_notify_user_info stuff.  Maybe
> purple_user_info or similar.  I realize that right now this is only used
> within
> the notify API, but I expect its use will have wider applications in the
> future.
> 
> Ideally, I'd also like to get some of the theme and pixmaps stuff I
> proposed[1]
> earlier in for 3.0.0 too, even if it's in a different form than I originally
> proposed.
> 
> Any feedback appreciated!
> 
> [1] "Additions to the .purple directory structure," 2007-08-08.
> http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2007-August/002538.html
> 
> John
> 
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