[Libosinfo] [PATCH] Drop redundant 'const' keyword from object parameters

[Zeeshan Ali]

Hi Christophe,

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 05:04:19PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali wrote:
>> Use of 'const' parameter on object parameters is redundant, inconsistent
>> (both internally and against other GObject libraries) and currently breaks
>> the low-level Rust binding generator:
>>
>> https://github.com/gtk-rs/glib/pull/249
>
> Could the Rust binding generator be fixed to cope with that instead?

I'm actually hoping for both to happen. :)

> It's definitely not used consistently, but removing a 'const' from
> external API is going to cause breakage in C++ code:

Well that's true but IMHO this breakage is OK, given:

* the unlikelyhood of an existing C++ project using libosinfo.
* how trivial the fix is to this breakage.

But that's just my opinion. :)

P.S. Kudos for writing the actual code to test this.