Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:01 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> > > 	* We do not have a commitment not to break the API after the
> > > 	  GNOME 2.12 release in six weeks.
> > 
> > I do commit to that.
> > 
> > We'll have cairo 0.6 out within days not weeks. And the API/ABI
> > stable 1.0 out within weeks not months, (as soon as we can, and
> > before GNOME 2.12).
> 
> Those are fantastic news Carl, thanks, am looking forward for an API
> stable Cairo. 
> 
> On a separate note:
> 
> I still think that making Gnome 2.12 depend on Gtk 2.8 is a mistake
> considering that there is no way Gnome 2.12 could take advantage of the
> handful of APIs at this point: we are already supposed to have chosen
> the features and developers have only five days to introduce
> dependencies.
> 
> If we depend on 2.6 those inclined could just replace 2.6 with 2.8 and
> get their Cairo.

If you depend on 2.6 you will depend on a version of GTK+ that will be 
effectively unmaintained in 2 weeks.