Re: GApplication is going away

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 16:58 +0200, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 15:47 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Define "this cycle".
> 
> GNOME 2.32 as it will be released in September.
> 
> > I see a lot of details about it going away, but at no point do I see
> > anything about _why_. It was discussed, implemented, then used by
> > applications. Why the sudden change of heart? What did we do wrong in
> > the process that we need to remove it and replace it now?
> 
> The old API has some warts and significant limitations.  In particular,
> we wanted to address these issues:
<snip>

Fair enough. I'm just asking how it got into glib and GTK+ with those
warts and limitations...

> The decision to change the API was made by Colin, Emmanuele and myself.

Can we expect all this to be sorted by the time 3.0 is released? Are we
going to have a flag day when the old API is gone, and the new one done?
I would hate to have to port my apps back to libunique, to then port
them to the new GApplication.

Finally, how does that impact GtkApplication?

Cheers