Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Brian Cameron wrote:

> I think renaming GTK to 3.0 doesn't make sense if ABI is not
> broken.  It doesn't really make sense to bump the number to
> 3.0 unless the plan is also to remove all deprecated functions
> from the library.  Bumping the minor number should be sufficient
> if ABI compatibility is maintained.  Bumping the major number
> should be a signal that the library is ABI incompatible, not
> just that the library has a "big change".
I don't really see much reason ever to break ABI for the forseeable 
future.  There's essentially nothing stopping us from simply leaving 
deprecated functions in there indefinitely, other than a fairly minor 
memory footprint increase which will never be paged in anyway.

With this in mind, we have to start asking the question of what we think 
the version numbers for GTK actually mean.

-Rob