[Mono-dev] patch for Mono.Cairo to rename Graphics to Context

[John Luke]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 10:35 -0600, Mike Kestner wrote:

> Seems like a gratuitous change to me.  
> 
> We are already exposing Cairo.Graphics in the 2.7.1 release of Gtk#.
> It's an unstable release, so I can change the symbol still, but the
> change as posted would break 2.7.1 on newer mono releases.
> 
> If this change is going to be made, at the very least I would suggest
> adding something like:
> 
I had forgotten that there was a release of the 2.7.X branch.

> [Obsolete ("Replaced by Cairo.Context")]
> public class Graphics : Context {}
> 
I would rather not make the change if we have to add Obsolete API, I
consider that an even more likely source of confusion.