Re: How does Project Ridley affect ISV's?

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

[snip]
> The description of "GNOME Platform" seems to say "The GNOME Platform
> libraries
> provides APIs on which GNOME applications can be developed.  They make a
> commitment to API and ABI stability within minor GNOME releases (e.g. all
> GNOME 2.x releases)."
>
> This seems to suggest that the current GNOME Platform libraries will
> be supported as long as GNOME remains at 2.x.  Does this mean that when
> Project Ridley is done that GNOME will become 3.x and the deprecated
> interfaces will be removed from GNOME, or is the plan to keep GNOME at
> the 2.x level and the deprecated libraries will continue to be supported
> even after Project Ridley is released?  Or is the plan something else?
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There is no plan whatsoever for an API or ABI break in the forseable
future. In the unlikely event that we did do it, we'd want to do a
parallel install, as we did with GNOME 1.4 -> 2.x.

Murray Cumming
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