Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Releasing proposal

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:19:10PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jonh Wendell wrote:
> > See, users have complained about the focus issue, which was fixed after
> > 0.3.3. So, the fix will be available in 0.3.4.
> >
> > Then I can't just say: upgrade gtk-vnc to 0.3.4, because this new
> > version is too different from previous, with new symbols, and worse: new
> > behavior.
> >   
> 
> New symbols shouldn't be a problem.  If your application is not using a 
> symbol there's no issue.
> 
> I don't intend on introducing new behavior--but the behavior of 
> set_pointer_grab() changed from 0.3.2 to 0.3.3 and it broke at least 
> gvncviewer and kvm-test.  We should have caught the change in behavior 
> before the 0.3.3 release but it slipped through.

Yes, the current 0.3.3 released behaviour is broken virt-viewer and 
virt-manager too.

> So for 0.3.4, I've simply reverted to the 0.3.2 behavior.  I understand 
> what you were trying to achieve when you changed the behavior of 
> set_pointer_grab() but I think the better way to do that is with a new 
> symbol which I've added for 0.3.4.

The (forthcoming) 0.3.4 behaviour is much nicer IMHO.

> I'm certainly open to suggestion, the overriding goal is to break as few 
> users as possible.  We broke some users with the change from 0.3.2 to 
> 0.3.3.  If reverting to back to the 0.3.2 behavior breaks even more 
> users, then we can do it as new symbols and preserve the 0.3.3 behavior.

Dan.
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