Re: GNOME 2.11/2.12 targeting GTK+ 2.8 (ie cairo based)

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 6/8/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> On 6/8/05, Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >         I guess there's quite a few benefits/risks to be weighed up here:
> >
> >   - The benefit of having cool new rendering stuff in GNOME 2.12
> >
> >   - The benefit of being able to use all the other new APIs in GTK+
> >     2.8 for GNOME 2.12
> >
> >   - The benefit of getting all this stuff tested early (i.e. before
> >     GTK+ 2.8 is released, rather than after)
> 
> I'm all in favor of *testing* gtk 2.8 as much as possible now (so I
> think it should be left in jhbuild), but I'm very nervous about
> shipping with it at this point- we all know HEAD does not get as much
> testing as it should, and gtk 2.8 seems like some very big changes
> with potentially huge stability implications. Basically, unless Ubuntu
> breezy starts shipping it, 

For the record, Seb has pointed out that he doesn't want to test it
until release-team have committed to it for 2.12, for entirely
reasonable reasons on his part. I'm more than happy to work with the
gtk folks (and anyone else) to push testing heavily and deal with the
results, FWIW, but that's Hard Work and our recent track record in
pushing it without builds is poor.

Luis