Re: gtk2-perl stable releases

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

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.

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Murray Cumming
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