Re: libgtk3deprecated (Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things)

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Tim Janik wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Martin Meyer wrote:
>
> > 3) How long / how much effort would it be do to this? Is it something
> > that has to be done by experienced GTK hackers or can it be handled  
> > as
> > a side project?
>
> I think any moderately experienced developer could tackle this (e.g.
> someone who has implemented his own widget at some point).
>
> A closing word on the library name, since this'd be an ABI break,
> such a library only makes sense for Gtk+-3.0 (or 2.99.0) and should
> probably advertise that it ships deprecated Gtk+ stuff. So the best
> name is probably libgtk3deprecated for this (there could possibly
> be a libgtk4deprecated as well at some point).

Seconded.  And there's a precedent, too -- Gtk2::Deprecated for gtk2- 
perl, which contains the widgets that were already deprecated as of gtk 
+-2.0.0.

http://markmail.org/message/qdo73axb72rr5i3k

The maintenance effort here has been effectively nil -- maybe six or  
eight hours over four years.  A fair portion of that has been  
answering help request emails with "this stuff is old and busted, port  
to the new hotness."

http://markmail.org/message/qdo73axb72rr5i3k#query:gtk2%3A%3Adeprecated 
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