[Xcb] [ANNOUNCE] xcb-util 0.3.9
Arnaud Fontaine
arnau at debian.org
Mon Jun 4 18:56:10 PDT 2012
Hi,
Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> writes:
> Based on the commit logs, I was under the impression that these
> functions were only meaningful to already-removed functionality. If
> the removal of that functionality didn't even warrant a version bump,
> why would removing its support APIs?
This functionality was deprecated but not removed yet. This commit
removed it completely but as these functions were previously part of the
public API, the SONAME was bumped, which IMHO makes sense to avoid
breaking existing program or libraries using this feature for whatever
reason. Perhaps, there would have been a smoother way to do that (any
advice is greatly appreciated BTW), sorry about that.
Cheers,
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Arnaud Fontaine
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