Re: New versioning scheme in gtk+. And in gtkmm?

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:19:51 +0000
Daniel Boles <dboles src gmail com> wrote:
> On 23 March 2017 at 15:09, Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>
> wrote:
>
> > One point is that version 3.90 has still not been reached.  gtk+
> > still seems stuck on gtk+-3.89, notwithstanding that gnome-3.24 has
> > now come out.
> >  
>
> I don't think there is any relation between GNOME releases and the
> development of GTK+ 4. As far as I know, version 3.89 is really v4
> alpha and will remain at that number until it's beta-worthy, at which
> point it will become 3.90 and so on.

I think you think incorrectly.  There is a relation: gnome components
will be encouraged to transition to gtk+-3.9* when it is out.  Whether
they do or not is another matter.  The rest of what you said seems OK.