Re: GNOME libraries 2.xx road map

[Ian McKellar <yakk-gnome-devel yakk net au>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 03:08:57PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> Hello guys,
> 
>    You can read my proposal for brining the GNOME libraires to their
> next major release (as part of the GNOME 2.0 project) at
> http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel/gnome-libs-2/
> 
>    Comments are welcome.
> 
>     <para>
>       Open for discussion: the current
>       <filename>gnome-config</filename> program is usually invoked
>       with the gnomeui argument and the user will expect the old
>       values.  Do we want to make the "gnomeui" symbol return the
>       compatibility libraries as well and create a new "gnomeui2"
>       option, or do we want to have a "compat" option as well when
>       invoking <filename>gnome-config</filename>
>     </para>

What about

gnome-config --gnome-version 2 (returns the version 2 libraries)
gnome-config --gnome-version 1 (returns the version 1 libraries)
with the default being version 1.

Ian
 

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