Re: release cycle note [was Re: Plans for 2.8 - GNOME Managed Language Services?]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:06, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:55 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > My suggestion if we want to do something in 2.8 and we can't get people
> > behind "open source Java subset" is:
> >  - make full introspection data on the GTK+ API more formally part of 
> >    GTK+, so language bindings aren't maintaining this themselves
> 
> It is worth noting that GNOME 2.8 will not be using the next gtk+ unless
> it is frozen and .0 fairly early in the gnome cycle, so this is more of
> a 2.10-type item unless we decide to move towards a feature-based
> release schedule again.

Adding introspection data doesn't break the API. This is just the API
descriptions used to generate e.g. the python bindings. It could easily
be in 2.4.1.

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