Re: API freeze for GNOME 2

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 15Nov2001 02:57AM (+0000), Sander Vesik wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Mark,
> > 
> > Our previous long-term roadmap for GNOME was:
> > 
> > 1.4.1 - Bug fix and UI polish follow-on to 1.4 (still not out,
> >         whatever happened to it?)
> > 
> > 2.0   - New major release, breaks source and binary compatibility with
> >         1.x
> > 
> > 2.0.1 - Bug fix follow-on to 2.0 (hopefully a quick-turn, 3-4 months or so)
> > 
> 
> I guess this will instead be a release with hopefully at least a portion
> (expecting all of them will probably not work out) of the larger non-core
> programs ported. 

The non-core programs are on their own release schedule.
 
> > 2.2   - Source and binary compatible with 2.0, will include compatible API
> >         changes, new feautures & usability improvements. 
> > 
> 
> I personally believe gnome needs a more consistent and frequent release
> cycle (everybody is welcome to look back in the gnome-2-0-list archives
> for quite a bit of discuyssion on this). As a gnome 2.2 that would contain
> gtk+ 2.2 and all the other nice things people are having pipedreams about
> is unlikely to happen before fall 2003 at the very earliest, there should
> probably be ~ 4 releases inbetween (this is an incremental release roughly
> every 6 months)

I don't think GNOME 2.2 should be tied to Gtk+ 2.2. I would like to
see it 6 months or so after 2.0.1.
 
 - Maciej