Re: About compatibility in GNOME 2 (was Re: Compatibility stuff)
- From: Eric Lemings <eric b lemings lmco com>
- To: gnome-hackers gnome org, gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: About compatibility in GNOME 2 (was Re: Compatibility stuff)
- Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:36:14 -0700
Martin Baulig wrote:
>
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
>
> > Any maintainer who accepts a patch to build against two GTK versions
> > is insane, even if the number of ifdefs is only 5. It's flat-out a bad
> > idea. Use a branch.
As a Gtk+/GNOME application developer, I think I would do this before I
placed platform-dependent conditional compilation into my code,
especially considering the differences between Gtk+ 1.2 and Gtk+ 2.0
API. (That would be a LOT of conditional code.) If the differences are
relatively small, like porting from GNOME 1.2 to GNOME 1.4 (if there are
any API differences), then I would probably seperate my
platform-dependent code instead and just add more checks to my
configuration and build files.
I seriously doubt that many developers will want to maintain two
versions of the same application for GNOME 1.2 and GNOME 2.0 anyways:
either they'll stick with GNOME 1.2 or they'll bite the bullet and make
the jump to GNOME 2.0.
Just my two cents on this thread.
Eric.
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