Re: Backward compatibility

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 08:43 -0300, Alfredo Kojima wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have written a couple of tools using gtkmm-2.2, but wanted to update
> to gtkmm-2.4  Problem is that some distributions ship 2.4,
> some ship 2.2 and I suppose that soon, some will start shipping 2.6
> (or 2.8). Furthermore, it seemed that gtkmm-2.4 was incompatible with
> 2.2, mainly because of the switch to libsigc++-2.0  Since I don't want
> to maintain several versions of the same tool, are there any
> compile-time compatibility macros or something? Would that be possible
> at all? Was the compatibility broken only in the 2.2 to 2.4 switch or
> do all other major version updates require code changes to allow the
> app to work?

The break-and-parallel-install happened only with 2.2 and 2.4. Only the
2.0 and 2.4 APIs exists. The latest version of gtkmm-2.0 is 2.2. The
latest version of gtkmm-2.4 is 2.6.

Don't worry about distros that don't ship gtkmm-2.4. They should not be
taken seriously.

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