Re: GTK+-2.3.0 released [unstable]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 16:32, Matthias Mann wrote:
>  If i like to install any for M$-Windows 1995 written
>  application on a $Windows XP system (since 2000) there are
>  no problems while using these very old binaries on a modern
>  PC system. But installing Gtk+ application binaries,
>  written in 2002, will make big problems for big projects
>  if i like to install them on a one year newer OS(with Gtk+)?
>  

You're confusing deprecation with removal. The Windows 95 APIs are still
there, but you are typically supposed to use a newer API if you're
writing code for XP.

Same for GTK+, GTK+ 1.2 is still there, GtkCList is still there, it's
just that using newer APIs is recommended.

GTK+ in fact has an essentially identical API evolution policy to
Windows; Windows replaces its APIs all the time, most recently all the
.NET APIs replace the last generation of C/C++ APIs.

Havoc