Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Releasing proposal

[Anthony Liguori <anthony codemonkey ws>]

Jonh Wendell wrote:
> Em Qui, 2008-02-07 às 17:34 -0600, Anthony Liguori escreveu:
>   
> > Jonh Wendell wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi, folks.
> > >
> > > What do you think about freezing 0.3 series and move improvements and
> > > new features to 0.4?
> > >
> > > 0.3.4 would be released only with bug fixes (if found).
> > >
> > > Thus we can do lots of tests with that branch, trunk, and let the 0.3
> > > branch untouchable.
> > >   
> > >       
> > What's the rational?  Have we been having regressions from release to 
> > release?
> >
> > I think we've been able to maintain pretty good stability between releases.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Liguori
> >     
>
> If an user run vinagre against gtk-vnc 0.3.4 (when it's released), it
> will find a bad behavior in fullscreen mode, because I'm using old
> set_pointer() behavior.
>   

How bad will the behavior be?  If it's unacceptable, I'm willing to say 
that the old behavior was part of the old interface and introduce a new 
interface that behaves "properly".

> So, I could guarantee to vinagre's users that it will work with gtk-vnc
> 0.3.x.
>   

I'd like to keep users working as much as possible.  If that means 
introduce API warts, I'm okay with that.  Eventually, once we've got 
enough confidence that we know how to do it right, we'll break the API 
only once and get rid of the warts.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> And next vinagre version will work with gtk-vnc 0.4.
>
> Cheers,
>