[libvirt] [libvirt-glib] Fix GVirConfigDomainTimerPit parent class/object

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> GVirConfigDomainTimerPit is correctly define as inheriting from
> GVirConfigDomainTimer in the G_DEFINE_TYPE macro, but it only
> embeds GVirConfigObject/GVirConfigObjectClass structs.
>
> This is an ABI break as this changes the size of the
> GVirConfigDomainTimerPit/GVirConfigDomainTimerPitClass structs
> However, since these structs only have non-public members, users of the
> library will not be trying to access fields of the struct past the first
> field (which is the one which changed size). This would also be an issue
> if anything had subclassed GVirConfigDomainTimerPit, which is unlikely at
> this point.
> All in all, it's imo more convenient to silently fix this without an soname
> bump. I've tested that GNOME Boxes built with an older version of
> libvirt-gconfig still generates the correct GVirConfigDomainTimerPit
> elements when using a version of libvirt-gconfig with this patch.

ACK. Extra points for providing all the details and testing against Boxes.


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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124