Re: gtkmm

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:24 -0800, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> Hi Murray,

Please use the mailing list in future.

> I just wanted to ask: do you have any plans to make the API of gtkmm stable, 

It is stable. Please see the Platform Bindings rules.

> like gtk is compatible through most of its 2.x releases?
> You see, there are many apps out there developed for gtkmm 2.0 or 2.2 and 
> they don't compile with 2.4.x

They don't even try to compile with it either. They install in parallel.

>  (which is what my distro ships).

That is your distro's problem, easily fixed by your distro, or by you
using a better distro.

>  This is a 
> great shame and a poor desktop experience on gtkmm's part

No it's not.

>  and makes people 
> dislike it for that reason alone.
> Is it possible to pay more attention on backwards and forward compatibility?

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