Re: Proposed Modules, My Take

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:16:45 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> If a module isn't going to offer a stable ABI throughout the major GNOME
> release series then it doesn't belong anywhere except the Desktop
> release.

I think the problem here is that people assume the bindings operate under
the same rules as the developer platform - that is what makes intuitive
sense. After all Apple don't say "Cocoa is stable unless you use Java" -
the Java bindings operate under the same rules as the 'native' Objective-C
APIs do.

In GNOMEs case though the bindings release is shipped in such a way that
apps are expected to depend on it and dynamically link to it (whether by
'import pygtk' lines or DT_NEEDED entries or whatever), yet it's not
stable like the developer release is, despite appearing to
work in the same way.

thanks -mike