Re: Steps to get to GTK+ 3.0

[Kristian Rietveld <kris imendio com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:30:37PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:37 PM, BJ?rn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com> wrote:
> > Regardless, gtk+ 3.0 is a long-term project, probably with a first
> > release sometime in 2010 or so. Embedded developers wont want to pick
> > it up before 2012.
> 
> AIUI this is NOT the case. My understanding of the Imendio proposal is
> that GTK 3.0 *only* seals widgets and makes them private, removes
> stuff that is *already* deprecated, but contains no features and does
> not replace and deprecate anything new.
> 
> ABI/API changes that are *semantic* are being moved to GTK 4.0 at this
> point, because the proposal is to make 3.0 a fast release that only
> hides stuff. Hiding stuff still won't allow changes in API semantics
> to be made compatibly.
> 
> Maybe 2010 is a fast release that only adds G_SEAL, but if so that's
> kind of depressing... I would hope a 3.0 that only did that could come
> out by end of this year or early 2009, maybe at the same time as the
> next 2.x release even. The whole argument is that to start on 3.x
> series feature work first the ABI must be sealed. Delaying feature
> work to 2010 would certainly suck.

You are right, the plan is to get a 3.0 out soon.  Hard to make
estimations, but certainly within a 12 month timeframe from now.  After
that the idea is to focus on new features, refactorings, etc, etc.


regards,

-kris.