Re: New rule

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 02:26 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> 
> > And it doesn't fix our problems of applications being unportable to
> the
> > current GTK+ 3.x branch either.
> 
> If apps are actually not portable at all to the new api, that's
> definitely a problem we should address before actually releasing a 
> new stable api.
> 
> The api is a work in progress, the porting guide is also a work in
> progress. I see little sense in wasting peoples efforts in rewriting
> porting guide sections for any micro-point release based on an api
> that may be subject to change before a stable release. 

And we know about those API problems because we tried to port the
applications.

If we didn't, we'd have been stuck with broken API when GTK+ 3.x was
released.

Helping port the core modules should be part of the deal when changing,
or committing new APIs.