Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

Hello,

> > 	* Not API frozen.
> > 
> > 	* We do not have a schedule for Cairo being API frozen,
> > 	  which incidentally breaks the API rules:
> > 
> > 		http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/api_rules.html
> 
> These are rules for libraries part of the GNOME platform. They're not
> enforced for everything stuck in the dependency stack below them,
> because that would essentially stop GNOME from depending on most
> libraries.

And we do not expose the APIs of other libraries nor we make any
guarantees about libjpeg, libtiff, libgif, libpng.

But Cairo is a completely different beast, it is not an "internal"
library of Gtk+ it is a fully exposed API exposed to widget authors and
application developers.  

Miguel