Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:

>   Disagreed.  Let's not call it 3.0 just because we feel like it.  3.0
> should mean API breakage point.  I still think that 3.0 should be a
> number for developers to care about, and project Ridley is a different
> thing.

It has been pointed out several times that at least glib and gtk+
don't want to break API compatibility again.  Not anytime soon.
Does it mean they have to stay 2.x forever?  No.  In fact the
announcement of Project Ridley noted that the result of Ridley
will be called gtk+ 3.0.

behdad