Re: GNOME Platform Bindings - first schedule date

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 03:04 AM, Murray Cumming Comneon com 
wrote:

> > > 1. It would be nice if you used GTK+ 2.3- and GNOME 2.5-like version
> > > numbers:
> > http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings> 
> > /rules.html#VersionNumbers
> >
> > as discussed before, we can't use 3-part version numbers for a 
> > variety of reasons, all perl-related.
>
> OK. Do you have any way to indicate API stability/addition with 
> version numbers? Can you tell me
> - what version numbers you will use for your GNOME Platform Bindins 
> 2.6.0 releases, for your libgnomeui binding, for instance?
> - what version numbers you will use for your GNOME Platform Bindins 
> 2.7.x and 2.8.0 releases, for your libgnomeui  binding, for instance?

i can't tell you right now what those versions will be for GNOME 2.8 
--- but there are no API additions in our stable series, and we retain 
as much backwards-compatibility as possible.  for example, you can 
compile the current stable release of the Gtk2 module against any 
currently existing stable release of gtk+-2.0.

but, for our stable series (even yy in x.yyz), there will be no API 
additions, only bugfixes.  a new stable series may add API.  e.g., no 
new functions will make it into Gtk2-1.02x, but will be available in 
Gtk2-1.04x.  in fact, we're waiting impatiently for gtk+'s api freeze...

the current plan is to have 1.00x of Gnome2 and friends ready for the 
GNOME 2.6.0 release; they are currently in 0.9x beta series.


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