Re: Big GDK cleanup

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 8 Sep 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:    
> > We simply can't go around breaking binary compatibility every 6
> > months, or every year, and I can't see waiting a couple of years for
> > another release. There are a bunch of issues we can and should fix in
> > the short term:
> > 
> >  - Multihead suport
> >  - File selector widget
> >  - Replacement for OPtionMenu and ComboBox
> >  - Action based menu API 
> > 
> > These are all straightforward API additions, and there should
> > be no problem at all doing them in a binary compatible fashion.
> > 
> 
> While as you said we shouldn't get into a huge discussion here ;-) 
>  - one way we can get this release out faster might be to leave 
> glib/pango/atk frozen, that is, only increment the GTK version and
> only add stuff to GTK.

there's lots of similar stuff pending for glib as well, so that'll not
stay frozen, dunno about pango/atk though.

> 
> Havoc
> 

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ciaoTJ