Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Vincent Untz">

> Le dimanche 21 août 2005 à 14:00 +0200, Claessens Xavier a écrit :
> > 2) If GTK+-3.0 is released, will it lead automatically to gnome-3.0 ? So
> > is it the right moment (not now, but when GTK3 will be released) to do
> > API/ABI breakage in all gnome apps/libs ?
> 
> There's no reason to think that GTK+ 3.0 will immediately lead to GNOME
> 3.0. And I don't think the most important thing is to break the API/ABI:
> it's more about deprecating some API in some of the GNOME libraries.

Probably worth putting some of the ABI/API answers on the ProjectRidley
page, just so it's absolutely clear. I would do it, but I don't really want
to miscommunicate the goals. :-)

(And we should remind developers/audience that deprecation != API/ABI break,
it's just notification that at some stage, we will.)

- Jeff

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