Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP branched: new stable branch gimp-2-10

[Simon Budig <simon budig de>]

Elle Stone (ellestone ninedegreesbelow com) wrote:
> On 05/21/2018 11:13 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> > Just to be clear, the toolkit update here is not*just*  a necessary evil.
> > It will also be totally awesome, even feature-wise!
>
> <snip>
>
> > Simply to get there, we have to pass through an "unstable" phase, that's
> > all there is to it.
>
> Apparently GTK+3.22 is considered "long term stable" (that is, supported for
> three years? starting from when?) and is the last minor release in the GTK+3
> series: https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk/

Just to clarify, the "unstable" phase happens because we're migrating
the toolkit, not because the toolkit we're migrating to is unstable...

> Will the port from GTK+3 to GTK+4 be as difficult as the port from GTK+2 to
> GTK+3? Looking at various NEWS postings in the 3.93/.92/etc releases leading
> up to GTK+4 (http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/), it looks like a
> fair amount of stuff will change.

I guess we'll see. The major concern I have is related to our own ABI
compatibility. Is there a way to decouple our ABI version from the GTK
version? This is what forced us to stick with gtk2 for that long
timeframe, and that sucked...

Bye,
        Simon

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