Re: GNOME 3 status update

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Andre Klapper<ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
>
> > I can see several options here:
> >      * This is a problem of those older distros and upstream gtk+ does
> >        not need to care about it
> >      * If'def a lot of code in the affected modules
> >      * Introduce those API additions to upstream gtk+ 2.12.x and
> >        publish a 2.12.13 tarball
>
> No, GTK+ 2.12 is a stable (in fact, even a dead) branch at this point,
> that we are not going to open up for new API at this point. The idea
> of stable branches in GTK+ is that you can rely on the fact that if it
> built against 2.x.y, it will also build and work against 2.x.z with z
> < y.
>
> Nevermind that enterprise distros are unlikely to follow such an
> unprecedented stability-breaking late release anyway...

That all depends on what is happening right now - are people using stock 
2.12, or patching 2.12 to address the issues Hub addresses?

Dave.
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Dave Neary
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