Re: RFC: GnomeMDI

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 03:04:43PM +0200, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, George wrote:
> 
> > And we'll have to maintain libcompat for quite a bit if not
> > indefinetly really.  Not adding new features, but it will need to be around
> > if we want to show commitment to at least some source compat.
> 
> I tought the compat cruft is to stay only until the next major release.
> I.e. you will have the timeframe from GNOME2 to GNOME3 to migrate
> completely from depracated GNOME1 stuff since they will disappear
> completely in GNOME3.
> Otherwise,  we will have compat stuff 10 times the size of actual content
> for GNOME8.

That's the price of being compatible, and we should be so.  GnomeMDI is
actually quite useful too.

Remember that larger companies are a few versions behind in everything, so
you can't expect them to be always up to date.  AFAIK, even X11R6.4 still
includes some X10 compatibility stuff.  And that's been a LONG time ago.

George

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