Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 17 May 2013 12:37, David Nečas <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:40:10AM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > it's maintained only for critical bugs, or for platform support; no
> > new feature, and no new API is *ever* going in to the gtk-2-24 branch.
>
> And that's what many 3rd party developers like.  Absolutely no changes
> except critical bug and platform support fixes.

yes, I suppose there is a part of ISVs that favour this approach.

after all, there are still a ton of corporate Motif applications
written in 1994 lying around that still need to be replaced by web
apps.

>  All the small bugs and
> peculiarities are known, are not replaced with a different set of small
> bugs and peculiarities in the next release and we've learned how to work
> around them.

sure, let's work around bugs and "peculiarities" instead of, you know,
fixing them. ;-)

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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