On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 at 12:01, Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> wrote: > The other thing that plays in here is that we actively encourage use of > g_autoptr everywhere. It is very unusual for "Error" to be a type that > does NOT want g_autoptr, and thus the mistake is very much on the cards. > > I've proposed it before myself & Markus caught it. I also caught one > other proposals to add it since my attempt. This third time it slipped > through review. I expect we'll see a 4th attempt to add it at some point.
We could add a comment to the header explaining the rationale for not providing a g_autoptr handler, so that at least we have it written down, and are more likely to remember it when it comes up again in future... -- PMM
