Re: The State of GNOME

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:53:27PM -0500, SEGV was heard to say:
> Richard Hult wrote:
> > 
> > On 26 Feb, SEGV wrote:
> > > Preben Randhol wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Albert Strasheim <fullung@ilink.nis.za> writes:
> > >>
> > >> | I don't know how much of this instability is to be blamed on Gtk+/GLib
> > >> | [which has really turned into a mess with the 1.0/1.1 issues], but it's
> > >> | still most horrible.
> > >>
> > >> Well now 1.2 is here...
> > >
> > > That in itself implies months of testing and debugging with the new libraries.
> > > In the real world, you don't just drop new foundation libraries into place,
> > > compile, and ship.
> > 
> > Well, gtk+ 1.2 = gtk+ 1.1.x + months of testing and debugging.
> 
> You miss the point. GTK+ 1.2 itself may be tested and debugged, but GNOME using
> GTK+ 1.2 has not.
> 

  Um.  As far as I know, the main difference in behavior between GTK+ 1.2 and
the last in the 1.1.x series is that a constant was changed from
"1.1.19" (or whatever) to "1.2.0".  Gnome has been written for GTK+1.2.  This
isn't a new foundation library that's being dropped in, it _is_ Gnome's
foundation library.

  Daniel

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