Re: [java-gnome-hackers] libnotify 0.7.0 Re: Useful lists

[Serkan K. <se...@ge...>]

As immediate intervation we should restrict libnotify version in our
configure script to < 0.7.0 and deprecate the removed methods. Then I
may introduce a branch that does the opposite and removes the
deprecated methods.

2010/11/16 Alexander Boström <ab...@ro...>:
> lör 2010-10-30 klockan 19:55 +0200 skrev Andrew Cowie:
>> Just a passing comment: as major API changes are happening in GTK
>> towards 3.0, useful mailing lists to be subscribed to are:
>
> Yup, this already happened with the Fedora package in rawhide (the
> future F15 release) as libnotify was updated to 0.7.0 and java-gnome
> won't build with that. (So I need a snapshot, rc or release which does.)
>
> Possibly I can provide a patch myself, as the changes seem rather
> trivial but it needs to be done in a way that'll still work with older
> libnotify releases.
>
> Is it ok to change the API exposed to the Java side? IIRC java-gnome
> isn't declare API stable but it'd be weird to have different APIs
> depending on which libnotify version it was compiled with.
>
> I guess the simplest solution is to change the API for all java-gnome
> users regardless of which libnotify it was compiled with...
>
>
>> From: Matthias Clasen <mc...@re...>
>> Datum: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:12:47 -0400
>
>> Here is an overview of the api changes:
>>
>> notify_notification_new_with_status_icon   is gone
>> notify_notification_attach_to_status_icon  is gone
>> notify_notification_attach_to_widget       is gone
>> notify_notification_set_geometry_hints     is gone
>> notify_notification_new                    has lost its widget argument
>>
>> A typical patch will look like this one:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/review?bug=632327&attachment=172525
>>
>> For some background on these changes, see
>> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/MessageTray/Compatibility
>
>
> /Alexander
>
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