Re: GTK3 parallel installable apps

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Stef Walter <stefw gnome org> wrote:
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>  a) Any version of the app compiled against GTK 2.0 can be installed
>    in parallel with the one built for GTK 3.0.
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>  b) The same version of the app compiled against GTK 2.0 can be
>    installed in parallel with the one built for GTK 3.0.

Neither of those is a very desirable goal. You only need one version
of the application. If it links against gtk2, it will work ok. If it
has been ported to GTK3, thats cool. Making apps parallel installable
is just not useful. For widely used libraries, things are a little
different, and it is valuable to provide parallel-installable versions
linked against gtk2/gtk3.