Hi, On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:30:37PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:37 PM, BJ?rn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regardless, gtk+ 3.0 is a long-term project, probably with a first > > release sometime in 2010 or so. Embedded developers wont want to pick > > it up before 2012. > > AIUI this is NOT the case. My understanding of the Imendio proposal is > that GTK 3.0 *only* seals widgets and makes them private, removes > stuff that is *already* deprecated, but contains no features and does > not replace and deprecate anything new. > > ABI/API changes that are *semantic* are being moved to GTK 4.0 at this > point, because the proposal is to make 3.0 a fast release that only > hides stuff. Hiding stuff still won't allow changes in API semantics > to be made compatibly. > > Maybe 2010 is a fast release that only adds G_SEAL, but if so that's > kind of depressing... I would hope a 3.0 that only did that could come > out by end of this year or early 2009, maybe at the same time as the > next 2.x release even. The whole argument is that to start on 3.x > series feature work first the ABI must be sealed. Delaying feature > work to 2010 would certainly suck.
You are right, the plan is to get a 3.0 out soon. Hard to make estimations, but certainly within a 12 month timeframe from now. After that the idea is to focus on new features, refactorings, etc, etc. regards, -kris. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list