hi; On 17 May 2013 12:37, David Nečas <y...@physics.muni.cz> wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:40:10AM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> it's maintained only for critical bugs, or for platform support; no >> new feature, and no new API is *ever* going in to the gtk-2-24 branch. > > And that's what many 3rd party developers like. Absolutely no changes > except critical bug and platform support fixes.
yes, I suppose there is a part of ISVs that favour this approach. after all, there are still a ton of corporate Motif applications written in 1994 lying around that still need to be replaced by web apps. > All the small bugs and > peculiarities are known, are not replaced with a different set of small > bugs and peculiarities in the next release and we've learned how to work > around them. sure, let's work around bugs and "peculiarities" instead of, you know, fixing them. ;-) ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
