Re: Suggestions for API/ABI Process

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:55 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> 
> > > Whoa...weird. http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning_2fTwoPointEleven_2fDesktop
> > > places it in the desktop, so does
> > > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.7/desktop/ and
> > > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.9/desktop/.  None of the corresponding
> > > pages for the platform list libgnomeprint.
> > >
> > > So, does anyone know what the mistake was?  I.e. did we list it in the
> > > wrong release set on the web pages, or did we place it into the wrong
> > > release set on the ftp site?
> > 
> > Oops. Looks like ftp has been wrong for a long time. We should fix the
> > versions release file.
> > 
> > I've seen lots of discussion about libgnomeprint* not being in the
> > Platform and none about it being in the Platform. Furthermore, we
> > removed libgnomeprint 1.11* (sometimes called libgnomeprint 2.0) from
> > the GNOME releases and replaced it with libgnomeprint 2.2. That would
> > have been totally incompatible with the Platform which was widely
> > understood to be a promise to keep supporting its APIs, even including
> > such funky stuff as libbonoboui.
> > 
> > This is proving Brian's point, of course.
> 
> Well, while we're at it...libgtkhtml doesn't appear in the 2.11.5 or
> 2.11.90 releases (it does appear to be in all releases <= 2.10.x) but
> still appears at
> http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning_2fTwoPointEleven_2fDesktop. 
> Should it have been part of the release or should it be removed from
> the wiki (I believe yelp was the only module that used to use it,
> right?)

Is anything still using it?

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