Re: gtkhtml2 vs. gtkhtml1

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 17 Sep 2002, Ali Akcaagac wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 12:54, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 	Right; and there is a good argument for having 2 choices; a
> > light-weight feature-lean, small, 'editable' gtkhtml1 port; and then on
> > the other hand the larger, slower, but 'all singing, all dancing' gecko
> > engine.
> 
> and here is the problem.... gtkhtml1 port.... look, wasn't it said that
> together with the gnome 2.x release you offer the people an api that
> will be valid for all time. by giving gtkhtml1 (which is not delivered
> with gnome 2) the favour over gtkhtml2 (which is delivered as component
> of gnome 2) you will break the api. somehow breaking the 'api' is not a
> valid sentence here since you remove the library but this breaks all
> projects that started e.g. after gnome 2.x release which uses gtkhtml2.
> 

gtkhtml2 is part of the gnome2 desktop, not platform (the same also 
applies to libwnck, libeel and some others) and there are no API or ABI
guarantees about these. 

> now the question is. what makes 'evolution' a more important application
> the reason for this gtkhtml1 vs. gtkhtml2 discussion than any other
> application. i doubt that we see a gnome evo 2 port before gnome 2.2
> release (maybe after that time)... think about this please.
> 

I guess we can consider Michael to be slightly biased when it comes to the
importance of Evolution 8-) 

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> Name....: Ali Akcaagac
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