[g-a-devel] Re: Enforce some restrictions on unstable APIs in the desktop release? (Was: gok broken with new libwnck)

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 10:19 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:

> >         i.e. the change has happened, you're going to have to deal with it. I
> > don't think this was neccessarily went against any policy, because we
> > don't have any policy on this other than "libwnck can change its API at
> > any time". I do think, though, that we should have a better policy than
> > that - e.g. that unstable APIs should remain frozen from API freeze time
> > until the next development cycle.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me for future releases.  Do we want this to just
> apply to libwnck, or to all unstable APIs in the desktop release?  If
> so, we need feedback from others whether this is reasonable and
> whether we want to add this as a rule for being in the gnome-desktop
> release.

	Yeah, it'd be for all libraries in the desktop, but not in the platform
- e.g. libgnome-menu would be another one.

Cheers,
Mark.