Hello;

ext Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:49:19 +0200, ext Tapani Pälli wrote:
>   
>> Riku Voipio wrote:
>>     
>>> The layering violation is including a function
>>> hildon_gtk_im_context_show() inside *gtk-2-0*. And the call for
>>>       
>
>   
>> What's the problem? Why we could not have our own custom functionality
>> in our Gtk+ tree?
>>     
>
> Huh? Because that's just wrong, it's a layering violation as Riku
> said, and because we are extending the API in an uncoordinated way
> with upstream. Reminds me of embrace and extend...
>
>   

Well, I guess there could be times when a distribution needs to extend
package functionality with own patches. It can be done in coordinated way.

> regards,
> guillem
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// Tapani Pälli

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