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Re: about api changes: msg#00074

Subject: Re: about api changes
2007/6/10, Barton C Massey <bart-sKt6ljEC1JY3uPMLIKxrzw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> In message 
> <200706101208.52454.christophpfister-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> you wrote:
> > It could be reconsidered for a next major api breakage
> > (like 2.0 - which will happen _somewhen_ but certainly not
> > in the near future). Because I think stuff like *_end(),
> > .rem & .index is ugly enough to think again about this ...
>
> Definitely.  We kind of piled the changes out the door last
> time.  Perhaps they should have given a more careful review,
> but we were eager to get folks actually using the stuff.
> At the next API breakpoint we'll have the luxury of sedate
> review before we make any changes...
>
> Thanks much for all your comments!
>
>     Bart

Another thing I discovered: for example xcb_char2b_iterator_t (guess
that there are others too) is of no use - because there's no function
returning such an iterator ... :) I don't think that they really make
sense and they could be removed.

Christoph


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