Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Getting a Cairo context

[Lucas Levrel <llevrel yahoo fr>]

Le 27 mars 2015, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :

> > I don't understand. Gtk2 is stable and only receives bug fixes, right? (Is
> > this what you call deep maintenance?) So why should a tutorial on it be
> > maintained? A tutorial on Gtk 2.24 would do, whatever its date.
>
> You still need to maintain a tutorial, unless it does cover
> *everything* already — which is not the case.

So we seem to agree on that: a tutorial on 2.24 would not require 
maintenance, sadly there's no such tutorial.

> If you're writing new code and you're using GTK+ 2.x, you're sadly
> Doing It Wrong™, as the kids say today.

I really meant expanding the code of a current project, not starting a new 
project.

But in any case, as a very occasional programmer, I'd rather not base my 
work on a moving ground: 2.24 has a fixed API, is stable and maintained. 
Cases like Heartbleed make me think that novelty for the sake of novelty 
is unwise (and in my case I'd spend more time following 3.x API changes 
than developping my project, which would be silly).

Thanks again for your help and advice.

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Lucas Levrel