On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:26 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > On 22/05/07, Thomas Vander Stichele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > If you don't break the API in the next series, why would you make a > > > change that requires every application to be updated to take advantage > > > of the new release? Doesn't that just make work for everyone? > > > > The applications don't need updating, the configure.ac > > > > For some reason people *want* to see a GStreamer with the numbers 1 and > > 0. So they will want to use a gstreamer-1.0.pc file. > > Okay. In that case, you could include a symlink from gstreamer-1.0.pc > -> gstreamer-0.10.pc, and have all the old applications continue to > build correctly and have a new version number in the pkg-config > package name, right? > > It just seems crazy to break compatibility for something as small as this.
Sure, lots of stuff possible. I don't *expect* them to be fully compatible however, since I'm sure there will be API warts that get cleaned up. Thomas _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list