Il giorno lun, 31/03/2008 alle 10.14 -0500, Mike Kestner ha scritto: > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:58 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote: > > What exactly is the cost to GNOME of leaving a deprecated unmaintained > library in the release set? > > I believe the point is exactly that it's deprecated and unmaintained. Putting it outside of GNOME gives a strong signal to developers. However, this doesn't mean that library can't continue living its own life outside of GNOME: it can still be packaged for a distro, or shipped along with a third-party application. If the application in question is still actively developed, porting the old code to the new one shouldn't be too much a hassle; it's not as if you're removing any functionality to the platform, just saying "move on to the next version, it's better and more stable and people will work on it". Frankly, I read "shipped with GNOME" as "people still hack on it and bug fixing still occurs regularly". Cheers, Matteo
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