[cairo] API completeness of reference/user_data pairs

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 09:46 +0800, Steve Chaplin wrote:
> 
> The cairo manual section "Creating a language binding / Memory
> Management",
> says (regarding the problem of subclassing) "This is not easily
> fixable
> without creating memory leaks, and it's probably best to simply forbid
> deriving from the language objects." - and that's what pycairo does
> (with the
> exception of cairo.Context).

So, anyone knows about the roots of that sentence?  Is it just from
before the user-data APIs landing in?  Carl?

> It can be misleading comparing GTK+/PyGTK with cairo/pycairo. GTK+ is
> deliberately written to be object-oriented (requiring GObject) and
> cairo
> is not object-oriented, and does not require GObject.

I know, and I mentioned that already.

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