Re: GNOME 1.x and 2.0 interoperability issues
- From: Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>
- To: Ravi Pratap M <ravi che iitm ac in>
- Cc: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, "Gnome 2.0 List" <gnome-2-0-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: GNOME 1.x and 2.0 interoperability issues
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:54:31 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Ravi Pratap M wrote:
> >
> > Other libs will need to do the analagous change if they haven't.
>
> But, tell me, is this necessary for all libraries regardless of
> whether there is API breakage or not ? It seems to be that if the API has
> changed, then what you guys did was the best thing to do. Otherwise, it
> shouldn't be necessary right ? Or wrong ?
>
Will there be any API compatible libraries ? And gnome-2.0 should not
care what is preinstalled (or postyinstalled) in the same prefix and just
work.
> Regards,
>
> Ravi
>
>
> --
> "If you're smart, you'll be humble. There always is somebody
> who hasn't read a book and knows twice as much as you do."
>
> -- David Duchonvy in Readers' Digest
>
> Ravi Pratap M <ravi che iitm ac in>
> <http://www.iitm.ac.in/~ravi>
>
Sander
One day a tortoise will learn to fly
-- Terry Pratchett, 'Small Gods'
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