Re: Putting the 'Mono debate' back on the rails

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le samedi 22 juillet 2006, à 15:44, Joe Shaw a écrit :
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > The API in the bindings suite covers the platform API. This has to be
> > clear to ISD/ISV and we don't want to compromise this message. Please
> > don't consider Gtk# only, but the platform (with the bindings) as a
> > whole.
> > 
> > It's not about additional guarantees. It might require more work on your
> > part (but is it so much more work?), packagers are certainly used to
> > such splittings and users won't see a difference 99% of the time.
> 
> If Mike were starting from scratch here, this would be great.  But there 
> are already users of these bindings and breaking them up would 
> effectively break ABI for existing users.  Gtk# already has its own 
> stability guarantees.

My bad: I was understanding users as end-users, not as users of the
bindings.

I know the issues splitting Gtk# can bring, but not splitting also brings
issues from the GNOME point of view. And that's more important in my
mind (maybe I'm alone in thinking that, though ;-))

Vincent

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