Re: Steps to get to GTK+ 3.0
- From: Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>
- To: "Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org, Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br>, Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>, Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort brutele be>, Kristian Rietveld <kris imendio com>
- Subject: Re: Steps to get to GTK+ 3.0
- Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:15:59 +0200
Le vendredi 06 juin 2008 à 18:22 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro a
écrit :
> I think I agree with Muntyan here. Gtk+ 3.0 brings nothing exciting, so
> why break API? It's just so pointless and painful for everyone. So
> much effort done with memory profiling and now we'll have to have two
> libraries, gtk+ 2.0 and gtk+ 3.0, side by side, for a few more years?
>
> If, as I suspect, Gtk+ 3.0 is more of a marketing stunt than anything
> else, great, we can release the next gtk+ 2.x as two separate libraries
> and header files:
> 1. gtk+-3.0: only the non-deprecated APIs
> 2. gtk+-2.0 deprecated: only the deprecated APIs
>
> $(pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0) would yield -lgtk+-2.0 -lgtk+-3.0,
> while $(pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0) would give -lgtk+-3.0.
Hmm, if gtk+-3.0 is released under lgpl-v3, gpl-v2 only projects such as
gnumeric would not be able to link gtk+-2 anymore.
Regards,
Jean
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