Re: glibmm ABI name for gtkmm 3

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 20:48 +0000, Piscium wrote:
> In Fedora, the package name for the current gtkmm version is "gtkmm24". Note that there is no dash nor dot. I like that. Easier to type.

The package name is a different issue, and not one for us.

> So my suggestion for the next version would be "gtkmm30".

No, I'd like our pkg-config .pc files to be consistent with other
projects such as GTK+.

> In the same vein, my suggestion for the next version of glibmm would be "glibmm2x". 
> 
> The x is a compromise. On one hand it is prefixed with 2, so it indicates that it is a binding for glib 2. The x itself indicates a cut with a past (x looks like scissors, of course). Then when glib 3 appears on the scene we could have "glibmm30". 

That really seems too confusing.

> If between now and then other ABI breaks are needed in the 2 series, we would have two versions to spare: "glibmm2y" and glibmm2z". Hopefully they won't be needed.
> 
> Alternatively if someone were to ask what the x in "glibmm2x" stands for, we could say that it stands for eXtraordinary!   :-)



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