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    Drop TypeNode reference counting · dc86ad19
    Emmanuele Bassi authored and Philip Withnall's avatar Philip Withnall committed 
    We don't allow unloading types, both static and dynamic, since 2013. The
code that deals with reference counting is mostly dead code, and makes
reasoning about the type system more complicated than necessary.

Since type classes and interfaces can only be instantiated, we introduce
explicit getter functions that create a GTypeClass or a GTypeInterface
vtable; the ref() and unref() API gets a "soft" deprecation (explicitly
not using `GOBJECT_DEPRECATED_IN_*` yet), to allow people to
progressively port their code.
    dc86ad19
    Drop TypeNode reference counting
    Emmanuele Bassi authored and Philip Withnall's avatar Philip Withnall committed 
    We don't allow unloading types, both static and dynamic, since 2013. The
code that deals with reference counting is mostly dead code, and makes
reasoning about the type system more complicated than necessary.

Since type classes and interfaces can only be instantiated, we introduce
explicit getter functions that create a GTypeClass or a GTypeInterface
vtable; the ref() and unref() API gets a "soft" deprecation (explicitly
not using `GOBJECT_DEPRECATED_IN_*` yet), to allow people to
progressively port their code.