Re: Proposal for making the GtkFileChooser code asynchronous

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> Murray Cumming wrote:
>> We might consider GNOME to be 3rd-party code. If someone installs this
>> future GTK+ 2.10 without also updating the rest of GNOME then GNOME
>> would
>> be broken. Smart package-managers would prevent this situation, of
>> course.
>> Maybe we can live with that.
>
> You mean distributions that have active packaging will prevent that
> situation. But not everybody uses package managers to install GNOME, or
> use a distribution which has the latest GNOME. Suppose someone uses
> Fedora 3 or something. Newer GNOME RPMs for Fedora 3 will not appear. He
> sees an application he wants to use, and installs the app from source.
> The app requires GTK 2.10, so he downloads GTK 2.10 from source,
> compiles and installs it, and BAM - he broke his entire desktop
> environment.

Only if he installed that from-source GTK+ over his packaged GTK+. That is
always a pretty stupid thing to do.

> Or what if somebody uses Linux From Scratch

There is no possible way to support those guys. They are on their own, and
they want to be.

> and builds everything from
> source? If he wants to use that app which depends on GTK 2.10, not only
> must he install GTK 2.10, but also recompile the entire GNOME stack.
>
> Compatibility should not be taken lightly. It doesn't mean that
> innovation is impossible, it just means you have to be more careful.


Murray Cumming
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