On Mon 14 Jun 2010 12:57, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> writes:
> Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 11:38 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : >> That's not a decision for the software writers to make when their code >> is in the GNOME release. > > Why would GNOME tell software writers that their code can't have build > time options to use either gtk2 or gtk3? People can do what they like of course, and I recall back when GStreamer used to compile against GTK+ 1.2 or the GObject in 2.0. But from a bug management perspective, having to always ask what GTK+ a user has compiled against is complicated, and they might not always know if the dependency tree is deep -- and in just such a case, a maintainer will sometimes find that the user inadvertantly linked against 2.x /and/ 3.x (due to transitive dependencies). It's not the last word, but there's definitely something to be said for reducing the configuration and bug space by requiring a specific ABI. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list