Re: The storage interface cleanup

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Michael Meeks <michael helixcode com> writes:

> 
> 	But wait; this is the API we are publishing for people to use
> during the timeframe of Gnome 1.4. A lot of people will convert software
> to this API. Looking at the rather large changes that Gtk+ 2.0 introduces,
> the amount of cleanup, reorganisation and just sheer grunt work that has
> to go into Gnome 2.0 when do you estimate that it will ship ?
> 
> 	The longer Gnome 2.0 takes, the more people use the Gnome 1.4 API,
> and ( assuming we are going to be allowed time to get Gnome 2.0 right ) by
> Gnome 2.0 we will have a big compatibility problem at this point.
> Consequently it seems we will have the option to rush Gnome 2.0 and get a
> shoddy product, or get it right and provide some sort of compatibility.
> 
> 	This is why it is really important to face a small amount of pain
> now in order to save serious grief later. Especialy if we are calling this
> Bonobo 1.0 and encouraging people to use it everywhere.
> 

Michael,

>From what I have seen so far of Gtk+ 2.0 and gnome-libs 2.0, the GNOME
2.0 platform will massively break binary and source compatibility
anyway. It's probably wise to get better about this at some point, but
preserving the API for bonobo alone is unlikely to help. 

 - Maciej