Re: Gtk+4.0

[Peter Weber <peter weber ttyhoney com>]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:48:46 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 02:20:25PM +0200, Peter Weber wrote:
> > I think breaking the API/ABI because of required changes, is right,
> > breaking API/ABI because a fixed number of months has passed doesn't
make
> > much sense.
>
> From time to time, it is nice to get rid of deprecated APIs, to have
> less code to maintain. GTK+ 3 has quite a lot of deprecated classes. So
> getting rid of those, that alone is a good reason to release GTK+ 4, in
> my opinion.

I think so. Getting rid of deprecated APIs from time to time is a required
reason :)