Re: API freeze for GNOME 2

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> Hi Owen,
> 
> On 14 Nov 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > By 2.2,  I meant "post-2.0 release with API additions and binary
> > compatibility".
> >
> > I don't know of any post-2.0 version number plans in for GNOME
> > at this point. For GTK+, what I want to do is:
> >
> >  2.0
> >  2.0.x  Bug fixes
> >  2.2    Source/binary compatible release with multihead support, other
> >         API additions
> >  2.4?   Another source/binary compatible release
> >  2.6?
> >  3.0:   Source/binary incompatible release in the hazy future
> >
> > Haven't completely gotten Tim to agree with me yet on this versioning
> > scheme, but we are going to be restricting ourselves to source/binary
> > compatible additions for the mid-term future in any case.
> 
> 	That's great - really :-) At least this has been thought out
> for gtk+.
> 
> 	No, how about the rest of gnome? Is there a possibility that
> this could be agreed on as a general, hazy plan for the gnome desktop
> as a whole?
> 

Whats the worth if all everybody is going to do with that is piss on it?

> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 

	Sander

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