Re: How does Project Ridley affect ISV's?
- From: "Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>
- To: "Brian Cameron" <Brian Cameron Sun COM>
- Cc: gnome-release-team <release-team gnome org>
- Subject: Re: How does Project Ridley affect ISV's?
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:49:16 +0200 (CEST)
[snip]
> The description of "GNOME Platform" seems to say "The GNOME Platform
> libraries
> provides APIs on which GNOME applications can be developed. They make a
> commitment to API and ABI stability within minor GNOME releases (e.g. all
> GNOME 2.x releases)."
>
> This seems to suggest that the current GNOME Platform libraries will
> be supported as long as GNOME remains at 2.x. Does this mean that when
> Project Ridley is done that GNOME will become 3.x and the deprecated
> interfaces will be removed from GNOME, or is the plan to keep GNOME at
> the 2.x level and the deprecated libraries will continue to be supported
> even after Project Ridley is released? Or is the plan something else?
[snip]
There is no plan whatsoever for an API or ABI break in the forseable
future. In the unlikely event that we did do it, we'd want to do a
parallel install, as we did with GNOME 1.4 -> 2.x.
Murray Cumming
murrayc murrayc com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com
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