Re: glibmm ABI name for gtkmm 3

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 11:07 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> At the moment, I think we will just break glibmm ABI at a particular
> glibmm version and not attempt to wrap that version of glib for both
> glibmm ABIs.
> 
> The current glib is 2.24. The next one will be glib 2.26, probably
> within 6 months. I suggest that glibmm 2.26 will wrap glib 2.6, without
> breaking ABI.
> 
> Then glibmm 2.28 would break ABI and wrap glib 2.8.
> 
> I think it's wroth waiting until glib 2.28 because I don't believe that
> GTK+ 3.0.0 (or GNOME 3) will be done within six months. But that's not
> the official GTK+ or GNOME opinion. If I am wrong then we can quickly
> adapt.

GNOME 3.0 has just been delayed from September 2010 to March 2011, with
a GTK+ 3.0 release expected in December 2010 instead of September 2010:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2010-July/msg00003.html

So we do indeed have more time for gtkmm 3.0.0, so we have more time to
do an ABI-breaking glibmm if we like. So my plan seems to have worked
out so far.

> In the meantime, so we can start work in a branch, we need some
> temporary ABI name that is obviously not something to consider stable. I
> suggest glibmm-2.26maybe . 

There is a glibmm-3maybe branch that is up to date (like master, but
with deprecated stuff removed):
  http://git.gnome.org/browse/glibmm/log/?h=glibmm-3maybe

I have not managed to change the ABI name yet.

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