Hi, would adding a method to an existing published interface be considered too incompatible for a 3.2 release?
In particular, css.awt.XView has a method setZoom, but not a getZoom, which I'd like to add. I could create a crutch called XView2, deriving from XView, having only this one said method. However, it would lead to a better API (IMO), if we would simply add the method to XView. Now XView is "published", but did't we say that there's a certain type of incompatible API changes which we should consider to allow for non-major OOo releases? In this particular case, I'd say this is such a case: The change makes the interface more consistent, allows retrieving information which otherwise cannot be retrieved (via UNO), and touches an interfaces which is rarely used inside OOo's code base (and probably also rarely outside of it). Opinions? Ciao Frank x-post to interface-discuss and d...@api, follow-up to d...@api -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [email protected] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
