Re: Suggestion for GTK+ 2.0 distribution...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Raymond Wan <rwan cs mu oz au> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> 	I was wondering if it would be possible to add some text file in
> the GTK+ 2.0 distribution (whenever it comes out) that gives brief
> instructions on how to port something from 1.2.x to 2.0?  Maybe not even
> instructions, but three lists of widgets:  one of widgets that should be
> changed (because GTK 2.0 does something more efficiently), another list
> that must be changed, and a last one with widgets that will not require
> any changes.
> 
> 	I took a brief look at the 2.0 API documentation and I'm wondering
> how hard the porting will be -- can anyone give any hints to the expected
> difficulty in porting?  Of course it "has" to be done since there are a
> lot of features in 2.0 that I'm looking forward to!  =) 

docs/Changes-2.0.txt includes information on incompatible changes.

We do plan to have a more extensive porting guide before the final
release of 2.0.

Regards,
                                        Owen