RE: No GTK+ 2.6 in GNOME 2.8

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 07:29 -0400, Jeffrey Morgan wrote:
> The java team had hoped to enhance our gdk layer by adding
> many of the missing methods.  Will you be oposed to these 
> additions?

OK, so I think the best thing to do for this is to just add "unstable"
to your tarball names. something-2.4.5unstable.tar.gz looks a bit
strange but at least nobody can claim that it is stable.

When making unstable releases with 2.4 names, please do make it
absolutely clear that they contain API that could change and that distro
packagers should not update their stable packages with them.

You might want to start at some high number such as 2.4.10unstable. That
would give you room to do maintenance releases of your stable branches,
with numbers like 2.4.2.

Or, does anyone have a better suggestion yet?

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Murray Cumming
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> 
> -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
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> > murrayc murrayc com
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