Re: Building multiple backends on on same system

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:33 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> >
>> > Also, do you target this for 3.0? Because I don't think it's doable in an
>> > API-stable way during 3.x?
>> >
>>
>> Too late for 3.0. Remember, there will be a 4.0 at some point.
>
> Are you sure it will not be possible to get this into 3.0? Its mainly a
> bunch of code motion and cleanup. I don't expect it to be ABI
> incompatible even, except for some new types, and the fact that
> x-specific code needs to ask for the gtk+-3.0-x11 pkg-config module,
> rather than gtk+-3.0 (and without more changes it will break if the
> backend in use is not X11, but thats not really a real problem at this
> point).

I have to admit that I haven't looked closely at the actual api/abi impact.
If it is just code motion and cleanup, then we can try to shoehorn it in.
But even so, we are a little less than a month away from 3.0