Fwd: gtk+ API change; who should fix it? (A.k.a. Why isn't GNOME 2.19.4 released yet?)

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

Just realized that pygtk and gtk-devel-list subscribers may not be on
d-d-l.  So I'm forwarding this.  See
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-June/msg00109.html
for the thread and discussion.  Please jump in.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>
Date: Jun 21, 2007 8:05 PM
Subject: gtk+ API change; who should fix it? (A.k.a. Why isn't GNOME
2.19.4 released yet?)
To: Gnome Desktop Development List <desktop-devel-list gnome org>


Hi,

As noted in bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449318,
there was a recent gtk+ API change.  jdahlin just barely told me that
the changed API has existed since 1998, long before gtk+-2.11.x (and
pointed me to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447214).  This
API change breaks pygtk and means that much of GNOME cannot be
compiled.  But it doesn't seem clear who should fix this.  Should gtk+
revert it or somehow fix the API break, or is this an API break we
want and expect pygtk to adapt to?

Elijah