Re: GNOME 2.21.90 Development Release

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 18:45 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 3:21 PM, Mike Kestner <mkestner gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 21:49 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > =================================
> > > GNOME 2.21.90 Development Release
> > > =================================
> >
> > Hey Elijah,
> >
> > I noticed that you folks picked up gnome-sharp-2.19.91 for this release.
> > In our current development releases, we have split the existing
> > gnome-sharp binding set into two packages: gnome-sharp and
> > gnome-desktop-sharp.
> >
> > We have moved our rsvg, vte, and gtkhtml bindings from gnome-sharp to
> > gnome-desktop-sharp in an attempt to clarify the stable/unstable status
> > of the APIs.  We also have added a few new bindings to
> > gnome-desktop-sharp.
> >
> > I didn't officially pursue inclusion of gnome-desktop-sharp for 2.22
> > because of the timing of when all this started coming together, though
> > at this point, I'm confident gnome-desktop-sharp 2.20 will be ready when
> > GNOME 2.22 ships.
> >
> > It would be great if the gnome-desktop-sharp package can be included in
> > 2.22.  If it's too late or too controversial to do so at this point,  I
> > would suggest that you revert to gnome-sharp 2.16.x for 2.22, since
> > shipping gnome-sharp 2.20 without gnome-desktop-sharp will remove
> > functionality.
> >
> > Let me know if I can provide any more info.
> 
> Given that it's primarily a split of an existing module, I think it'd
> make sense to include both rather than reverting.
> 
> What does everyone else say?

gtk-sharp is in Platform Bindings. gtk-desktop-sharp could be in
Desktop, if some other part of the Desktop (tomboy?) uses it? But the
rules don't allow it in Platform Bindings, which is why we wanted it
split in the first place.

If that means that it's not going to be in the official GNOME release
set then that's not suddenly an API break. People can still get it, and
we never said that these parts of gtk-sharp were stable platform APIs
anyway.

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