Re: Putting the 'Mono debate' back on the rails

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 7/22/06, Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com> wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > The API in the bindings suite covers the platform API. This has to be
> > clear to ISD/ISV and we don't want to compromise this message. Please
> > don't consider Gtk# only, but the platform (with the bindings) as a
> > whole.
> >
> > It's not about additional guarantees. It might require more work on your
> > part (but is it so much more work?), packagers are certainly used to
> > such splittings and users won't see a difference 99% of the time.
>
> If Mike were starting from scratch here, this would be great.  But there
> are already users of these bindings and breaking them up would
> effectively break ABI for existing users.  Gtk# already has its own
> stability guarantees.

If those guarantees are more important to you than playing by the rules
of the Gnome Bindings set, than Gtk# may simply be better of staying
outside...