RE: No GTK+ 2.6 in GNOME 2.8

[Jeffrey Morgan <Jeffrey Morgan BristolWest com>]

The java team had hoped to enhance our gdk layer by adding
many of the missing methods.  Will you be oposed to these 
additions?

-Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Cumming [mailto:murrayc murrayc com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:23 AM
> To: language-bindings gnome org
> Subject: No GTK+ 2.6 in GNOME 2.8
> 
> 
> It looks like GNOME 2.8 will not use a GTK+ 2.6, so we will 
> not have any
> new GTK+ API to wrap in the GNOME Platform Bindings 2.8. That makes
> things easy for us.
> 
> However, you might want to add some new API in your bindings 
> anyway. For
> instance, maybe you forgot to wrap something, or you want to add
> improved versions of some methods. But you can't add API in 
> your stable
> versions. Hmm, this is awkward, but hopefully you will not need to add
> much API if there is no new GTK+ API. And the perl bindings 
> 
> Possible solutions if you need to add API to your GTK+ bindings during
> GNOME 2.8:
> 1. I could allow you to add it, just this once. But once you had
> released it in a tarball you would not be able to change it. I mean,
> there could be no unstable releases of your GTK+ binding, because you
> can't use the 2.5.x numbers to show that they are unstable.
>  
> 2. Other ideas?
> 
> -- 
> Murray Cumming
> www.murrayc.com
> murrayc murrayc com
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