Re: About GNOME 2.0 - The end of a dream

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 17 Jun 2001 11:18:38 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:19:16PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > >     "
> > >       - Gnome 2.0
> > > 
> > >         There is concerns that people are adding to HEAD, not stabilizing
> > >         it, working that way there is few chances we can ship in time.
> > > 
> > >         Seems that porting the stable branch to GTK-2.0 sounds a more
> > >         reliable way to end up with something stable. Some libgnome
> > >         APIs needs to be removed by their new GTK counterparts, but 
> > >         we should avoid unstable changes at the Gnome level.
> > >     "
> > > 
> > I am really surprised. Was that really decided on the board, or is just
> > a personal opinion from someone on the board?
> 
>   When there is a decision taken it ends up in the special section at
> the top of the minutes I take. I think the wording using 'Seems', 'sounds'
> and 'should' should have made clear it was a discussion, not a decision
> process. Sorry if this was unclear.
> 
no, sorry you for being unclear myself. I meant:

...Was that really discussed on the board...

So, if it was really discussed, I am more surprised, since Martin is
being working on GNOME 2 (that is, all the small libgnome... modules). I
thought this was written on stone: work is on GNOME 2, not GNOME 1 and a
half, which would be what a new GNOME with the same gnome-libs would be

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