Re: First deprecate APIs and then remove them in the next major version

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 23 December 2017 at 13:47, Salvatore De Paolis <iwkse-ml gmx com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:08:46 -0800
> Christian Hergert <christian hergert me> wrote:
>
> > Ardour could never move to Gtk3 because a number of VST plugins use Gtk2
> > and you cannot mix both into the same process space. DAW authors will
> > often cite the necessity for plugins to be in process to allow for a
> > large number of tracks/plugins due to context switching. (This is a
> > contributing factor to why many DAWs write their own UI toolkits).
> >
> > As for GIMP, I think the lesson I take away is that we need to recruit
> > people to go do the ports for important projects rather than expect them
> > to track us. Red Hat has shown that this strategy works in both Firefox
> > and LibreOffice (which are arguably the two hardest applications to port).
>
>
> http://libremusicproduction.com/news/20171221-lsp-plugins-version-110-released-farewall-gtk

Unsurprisingly, considering that the whole UI is completely custom and
using a generic desktop toolkit would have made their lives miserable.

> I wonder why GTK+ has not been forked yet.

I wonder why you don't keep this kind of statements for yourself; in
any case, feel free to fork GTK and figure how why nobody does that.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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