Re: GNOME Namespace Management - ARC & GNOME

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> But I fear that we are talking about simple binary ABI-stability of the
> GNOME Platform libraries. If SUN has found that they are not ABI-stable
> then they should be telling us, because we want them to be ABI-stable, and
> we think they are.

There were some examples posted earlier, eg:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-December/msg00214.html

I think the issue is that you're using a different definition of stable 
to what Sun is. Sun mean "backwards compatible", whereas you mean "has 
the same ABI" which is not the same. It's possible to not break the 
binary interface but still stop apps from working when they're upgraded, 
and GTK+ has done this in the past with full knowledge.

thanks -mike