Re: Proposed Modules, My Take

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:52 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:

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> The bindings release is a set of requirements that ensures something
> better than this above worst case scenario, while not providing
> everything that you want yet.  The user will be able to use both
> applications by having both versions of the bindings installed at the
> same time.  Further the bindings do discourage the breaking of API and
> ABI, and thus discourage the number of parallel installations needed
> (not as much as gtk+ does, but even with gtk+ we have 1.x and 2.x
> installed).  No, it's not perfect, but yes this is very useful (to me,
> at least).  Hopefully things will improve as the bindings and
> languages are used more so that hopefully we can provide better
> guarantees.

I think the (entire) explanation above is exactly what I was asking be
put onto the Bindings page in my bug report at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164652

That is far clearer and very specific about the definition of and
requirements of ABI stability in the Bindings release than what the
current Bindings rule page displays.