Re: gtk2-perl stable releases
Murray Cumming <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:01, Ross McFarland wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 05:56, Murray Cumming wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 04:50, muppet wrote: > > > Now that gtk+-2.4.0 is out, we are able to make our Glib and Gtk2 > > > modules stable. > > > > I'm not very happy with you declaring total API/ABI stability before the > > date on the GNOME Platform Bindings schedule. Why the rush? Let's just > > hope that you don't need to change anything before then. > > we decided that it would be a good idea to do a stable release with > enough time left to do another if need before we had to submit to the > language bindings. if that release stands works fine and doesn't have > any major (non-api) problems then it will go into lang bindings. if not > then we'll have enough time to rel another for inclusion. You can't call the ABI stable and then break it. How would you feel if GTK+ did that? This is all about being stable and making people feel confident that we are. > a sizable group of people wait around for a stable rel before > downloading and trying out new stuff. if that didn't happen until the > bindings deadline we would of had a whole lot of new people testing (and > potentially finding new problems) with no time/way to fix them. That's why we have a schedule - people know when they have their chance. > i would be more worried if the first 'stable' rel (with 2.4.0 support > and lots of other new stuff) was done without the time to fix possible > problems before it had to be included in the bindings set. -- Murray Cumming www.murrayc.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ language-bindings mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/language-bindings