On 7/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain * wrote: > > >> The other example is gstreamer, I am sure they can share with us > >> whether > >> their decision to go with parallel-installable version of 0.8 and > >> 0.10 was a > >> pleasant exercise. Of course they were facing similar situations as > >> is now. > > > > > > Speaking as aGStreamer application author and user, it was very > > pleasent. It allowed me to use applications that had been ported to > > 0.10 and applications that had not...all at the same time! > > Good :). > But for how long? 6 months, 1 year or 3 years? I guess you don't to > want to > do that for very long :) or many versions.
I want to do it for as long as I want to run apps that haven't been ported. As it is, on Saturday night I had the (misfortune) of needing to run Audacity. It is a gtk1.2 program. Had gtk not been parallel installed, I would have been screwed. Royally. And so, I have no problem with parallel installs even 5 years after the old software became obsolete so long as it solved my needs. iain _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
