[PATCH:libX11 1/2] Bug 32098: Making XInternAtoms take const char ** breaks callers

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 06:46:56PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 12/14/10 04:16 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Hm, I'm really not wild about this at all.  Getting all our types right
> > is hard enough as it is, and I suspect we're just going to have problems
> > with this leaking anyway.  What happens if a toolkit and an app, or an
> > app and a helper library, or whatever, disagree on whether or not the
> > arguments need to be const?
> > 
> > I'd say that we should just chalk this down as yet another Xlib API
> > mistake, and people who need it to be const can just do the cast, take
> > the warning if necessary, and move on with their lives.  Or move on to
> > XCB.
> 
> Yeah, I hadn't thought through the issues of different levels of library
> & toolkit with different ideas about what's right.   I declare defeat and
> will revert the original change.

Sorry to harsh your buzz. :)

Cheers,
Daniel
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