Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 23:42 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 17:20 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > There could or could not be significant issues in 2.7.  The point is its
> > not certain and it introduces significant *risk* to the schedule.  We
> > went through the same thing with 2.6 and it seems we learned nothing,
> > see your own original view:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-June/msg00020.html
> > 
> > As well as Andrew's:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-June/msg00022.html
> 
> Just for reference, the main differences between 2.6 and 2.8 are their
> stability and completeness *at this point* in the release cycle - ie.
> the point at which we are committing to one. 2.8 appears to be more
> stable and complete than 2.6 was.

Oh, the other point is that the GTK+ team are, this time, very confident
that they will stick to their schedule. They were definitely not for
2.6. The advantage of testing GNOME with the GTK+ version that will be
released simultaneously with it means that the combination that is
blatantly going to be seen in the wild will be tested, rather than not
testing GTK+ at all.

This is basically Owen's second point from here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-June/msg00070.html

and it's very convincing. Don't forget it.
-- 
Andrew