[fltk.bugs] RFC: Handling ABI features [was: STR #2795: Fl_Tree: needs to be optimized to handle very large contents (10000)]

Looks like fltree.patch would break the ABI, so we can probably not apply this in fltk 1.3.x. Good point. Hmm, we really need a way to get ABI breaking stuff into FLTK, because if we don't, we forget to add it later. Also, I think a lot of people compile static, and aren't concerned with the

Re: [fltk.bugs] RFC: Handling ABI features [was: STR #2795: Fl_Tree: needs to be optimized to handle very large contents (10000)]

Perhaps we can create a configure(1) controlled macro flag called FLTK_ABI_FEATURE that is default off, and could be used to #ifdef out ABI breaking features. Oh, and in case it isn't obvious, users could configure' this feature on (eg. 'configure --enable-abi-features') and build