Re: API freeze for GNOME 2

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> 
> 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.
>  

For now yes, but i think going back towards some sort of unity would be
good. if the non-core and core next releases fall in roughly the same tmie
(or not too different timelines) why not release them under one umbrella?

> > > 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.
>  

Do you have an alternative feature set derived definition in mind for
gnome 2.2 or alternatively - what would the version that did include gtk+
2.2 be called?

>
>  - Maciej
> 

	Sander

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