Re: API freeze for GNOME 2

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

And as a fortunate side effect of those non-gnome users it has been very
good at being really sane for long periods of time.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:54:16AM -0800, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > additions, to go through the review process. We will take the
> > > non-GNOME users of libxml into account.
> > 
> > and make sure they suffer for their crimes
> 
>   They already do:
>    OpenVMS: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-November/msg00092.html
>    Windows: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-November/msg00093.html
>    AIX:     http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-November/msg00101.html
>    I was too lazy to dig to find the MVS and MPE report, and except for
> AIX (and that kindof insane Windows port) I doubt any of those platform
> ever saw a Gnome UI ever.
> 
>   More seriously, libxml2/libxslt is used in very different contexts than
> the Gnome framework, the library sits at a crossroads and I try to make
> everybody happy, this mean I may have different release issues and
> requirements than say libbonobo-ui. That said, I will take extreme care to
> not break the framework and will follow the release rules, hoping
> that no conflict will get raised.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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	Sander

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