Re: ATK question

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

On 11/18/2013 10:29 AM, John Emmas wrote:
> Hi guys - is this an appropriate place for posting questions about
> ATK?  I tried looking for a specific ATK mailing list but I couldn't
> find one.  Please let me know if I'm posting in the wrong place.

There is  not mailing list for ATK. We usually use
gnome-accessibiliy-devel [1] for any question about any of the GNOME
accessibility modules.

> Anyway, my question concerns the version numbering strategy for
> libatk.  When updating from git this morning I happened to notice that
> the version number has increased from 2.10.0 to 2.11.1.  This seems to
> be confirmed in the 'NEWS' file (top level directory) as well as in
> 'configure.ac' - BUT - if I look at the available branches (that I
> could switch to if I wanted to) 2.10 and 2.11 seem to be very old
> branches.  In fact they're among the earliest.  The most recent branch
> number is 3.10 - but even in the 2.X range, Atk is up to version
> 2.30.  So how can 2.11 be the latest branch??? This seems to be very
> different from the version numbering used by most gnome projects.

Version numbering of ATK and the numbers of the branches are not exactly
the same. In fact, if you take a look to the name of the branches, it is
not "atk-3-2" but "gnome-3-2". Those branches are a utility for GNOME as
a whole. So on the branch gnome-3-2 of atk, you will find the atk that
you should use on gnome 3.0.x. AFAIK, ATK is not the only module doing
this. And it has been doing it for a long time, even before I became a
maintainer, so I decided to keep doing the same for historic reasons.
For example, gnome-2-22 branch last release was ATK 1.2.4.

If you are interested on getting the different versions of ATK, you have
git tags [2]

I hope this answer your question

BR

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner/Releasing

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Alejandro Piñeiro