Re: developing for 2.0

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Trever L. Adams" <trever_adams yahoo com> writes:
> I am looking at creating a software package that needs a desktop.  I
> want it to be gnome.  However, I do not want to write for 1.2/1.4 as
> they are on their way out the door.  When will there be (I saw the
> schedule, so this is more of giving it a name) a release, alpha or beta,
> that I can install that will co-exist with 1.4 so that I can do
> development as well as have my desktop?  Will this be alpha 2?  Is the
> API more or less stable enough that this release will happen soon and be
> similar enough to 2.0 that I won't be wasting my time?

I would say yes and yes, today I got the last package from the GNOME 2
platform working installed in parallel. So alpha 2 will be
parallel-safe. The API is safe at this point, it'll have some minor
emergency changes but nothing that will take you a lot of time to
adapt to.

Havoc