Re: GTK+ 2.21.6

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
>
>> New functionality is available in both when it makes sense to do so, and
>> deprecated functionality is marked as much.
>>
>> You shouldn't see any difference in usage if you don't use the new
>> functionality.
>
> We distribute a version of GTK as part of our product for OS X. We had
> selected 2.22 as the branch to follow for this, on an apparently
> faulty understanding that 2.22 was a relatively stable branch at this
> point. Replacing every gdk_draw_* method doesn't qualify for
> "relatively stable" in my opinion. We now have to drop our tracking of
> 2.22 entirely and simply sit at the current (arbitrary) revision that
> we currently use for the build. Frustrating.

I don't see how that follows. All that is happening in 2.22 is that
some things are getting deprecated. You can still use them. We are not
going to take them away from you during 2.x