Re: gtk3 planning

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 11:28 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So I'm really concerned about what I see as the current GTK+ 3.0 plan,
> which is to release a frozen 3.0 in August.  At that point, we'll have
> *two* ABI frozen libraries that are 92.3% the same.  That's a really
> unfortunate situation, especially since a good chunk of the features
> that are currently in 3 could just as well (with some extra elbow
> grease perhaps) have landed in 2.

If they really are 92.3% the same, why would it be hard to port your app
to GTK3? It's also a good way for application writers to ensure that
they don't rely on deprecated libraries "by mistake".

Cheers