Re: [Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml API version

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 16:51 +0200, �stein Gisn�wrote:
> What happened to the gtkhtml API versioning before the GNOME 2.18
> release? Seems like it was a mistake to do the bump in
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtkhtml/trunk/configure.in?r1=8408&r2=8425
> 
> It is not the new strategy to bump API_VERSION for every release I
> hope..? As Tor Lillquist mentioned, it's to late to revert now.
> 
> What will happen before the next release (given that API/ABI is not
> broken)? It's NOT desirable to let the API_VERSION follow the general
> version number!

Bumping the API was not a mistake.  It marked the migration from
GnomePrint to GtkPrint, which broke GtkHtml's API.  GtkHtml no longer
depends on nor supports GnomePrint.

The API_VERSION should only change when the API actually changes.
Incrementing it to match the version number rather than by one was a
policy decision, as I recall.

Matthew Barnes