Some GNOME projects unconditionally work around the generated code's
lack of g_autoptr support by defining the autoptr cleanup function
themselves, which is not forward-compatible; as a result, commit
cbbcaa4 broke them. Do not define the cleanup function unless the
including app "opts in" to newer APIs via GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED.
Projects requiring compatibility with GLib < 2.49 can get a
forward-compatible g_autoptr for a generated GInterface type found in
a library, for example ExampleAnimal in the GIO tests, by declaring
and using a typedef with a distinct name outside the library's
namespace:
typedef AutoExampleAnimal ExampleAnimal;
G_DEFINE_AUTOPTR_CLEANUP_FUNC (AutoExampleAnimal, g_object_unref)
...
g_autoptr (AutoExampleAnimal) animal = NULL;
/* returns ExampleAnimal * */
animal = example_animal_proxy_new_sync (...);
/* takes ExampleAnimal * first argument */
example_animal_call_poke_sync (animal, ...);
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763379
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>
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