On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 23:45, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> writes: > > On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 21:14, Bill Haneman wrote: > > > Bear in mind that our accessibility work on GTK+ itself was > > > completed almost a full year ago, and that our implementation code > > > for ATK is entirely externalized in GAIL. > > > > gtk+ was already late a year ago. Look at the mail archives, and you'll > > see that it should have been released long ago. > > > > Just to clarify, I was talking about the desktop (panel, etc.) not > platform/GTK. > > A delay of GTK 2's magnitude has to come from dozens of sources; all > the major pieces took too long (TreeView, TextView, GObject, even > accessibility, etc.), there were too many smaller features added, and > key personnel got yanked onto other tasks on various unplanned > occasions. Some of the delays were deliberate, some were not. Each > individual delay cause was a drop in the overall bucket. ;-) > > 300,000 lines of productized code were written - that's just a > mind-blowing quantity of code, how any of us thought it'd happen on > the original schedule is an interesting question. > > Owen is going to postmortem the whole thing at GUADEC, personally I'm > curious to hear what he has to say: > http://www.guadec.org/callforpapers/abstracts.php?title=Looking%20back%20at%20GTK%2B-2.0 Just to be sure, I wasn't blaming anyone or anything, just pointing out that you wanted to release the thing long ago. -- /Bastien Nocera sneaking out before it gets messy for him http://hadess.net
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