Re: Patch to make guile-gtk work with upcoming guile-1.4

["Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu>]

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> "Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:
> 
> > +  tc16_gtkobj_marker_hook = scm_make_smob_type_mfpe("gtkobj_marker_hook",
> > +                                                    sizeof(sgtk_object_proxy),
> > +                                                    gtkobj_marker_hook,
> > +                                                    NULL,
> > +                                                    gtkobj_marker_hook_print,
> > +                                                    NULL);
> 
> (Thanks to Greg for the patch.)
> 
> Just a small comment:
> 
> The `scm_make_smob_type_mfpe' function has not been mentioned in the
> NEWS file because it might become deprecated in next release of Guile.

I'd much prefer that this function not be depracated... notice all of
the redundancies and potential maintenance headaches below.  People
*will* cut and paste from one section to another, change the *_hook in
the first line, and forget to change it in later lines, resulting in a
hard-to-find and nasty bug.

Greg

> 
> Please instead use the standard interface:
> 
> tc16_gtkobj_marker_hook = scm_make_smob_type ("gtkobj_marker_hook",
>                                               sizeof (sgtk_object_proxy));
> scm_set_smob_mark (tc16_gtkobj_marker_hook, gtkobj_marker_hook);
> scm_set_smob_print (tc16_gtkobj_marker_hook, gtkobj_marker_hook_print);