Re: [gnome-love] Enhancement of the gnome-search-tool

[Christian Sasso <christian sasso gmail com>]

Hi Murray,

this looks like a good introductory page. I skimmed through it quickly and I noticed that at least sometimes even deprecated stuff is explicitly mentioned:

[...] In previous versions of GNOME, the GnomeVFS library was used for
  access to files and folders.  While GnomeVFS provided many of the same
  features, including transparent access to remote folders, it had a number
  of limitations which have been addressed in GIO.  GnomeVFS is deprecated
  and should not be used in newly written code, although it will continue
  to be supported throughout the GNOME 2 lifetime.  For information on
  GnomeVFS, see GnomeVFS -
  Filesystem Abstraction Library. [...]

and about Printing:

[...] Work is currently underway to integrate printing directly
    into GTK+, providing a cross-platform print API that all applications
    can use.  While the current GNOME print framework will be deprecated
    once GTK+ supports printing, API and ABI stability guarantees ensures
    that it will continue to be functional and supported throughout the
    GNOME 2 lifecycle. [...]

But in general I agree that the page doesn't seem relentless in pointing out what NOT to use. For instance, the page links to documentation about Corba and Bonobo, that if I understand correctly, nobody should use anymore (I may be wrong: it has been a long time).

Regards, chris

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:27 -0800, Christian Sasso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I remember that few years ago when I used Gnome for a little project
> of mine, the two most difficult things I had to overcome had been:
> (1) the use of Autotools to build stuff (I remember I used part of the
> automatically generated output of the Anjuta IDE to get over this one)
> (2) to know which library/frameworks to use
>
> For (2) I wished there had been a page indicating what
> library/framework to use for each common task with an explicit
> indication of what library/frameworks NOT to use, because they have
> been deprecated. I read the documentation problem improved A LOT in
> these past few years, so maybe there is already such page somewhere on
> the Gnome website and someone will let Pablo know about it.

This is quite heavily linked from various places on the GNOME website:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/platform-overview/stable/

It doesn't mention deprecated things.

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