On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:30 AM Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <poch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 21/06/16 16:26, Peter Weber wrote: > > I don't see here an active discussion about Gtk+4.0[1]? So I'm trying to > > write about my thoughts, in a careful way. In the first moment, I thought > > this is a good idea and just the numbering is misleading. Stability is > what > > developers want, we need it, we love it. With a few days distance, > > numbering is just a small issue, I see this now entirely different and > > three major issues: > > Here are some thoughts I have about all this, from a downstream maintainer > POV. > Thanks! It's good to get opinions from all over the place. My concern with this new scheme is that GTK+ libraries will have to bump the > soname every 6 months (if they want to support the latest GTK+). That can > be > manageable for say vte or gnome-desktop, although it may be bad if some > third > party apps pick a dependency on the vte for GTK+ 4.2 but don't update it > for > GTK+ 4.4, as then distros would need to ship an increasing number of > versions > that are unlikely to get any support upstream. > I'm expecting this will become less and less of a problem as apps move to Flatpak as a means of distribution. But do you expect WebKitGTK+ to bump the ABI every 6 months? > That does seem to point to a problem — if an app uses Library X which does follow the unstable GTK series, and Library Y which doesn't, then the app developer is forced to stick to the stable series of GTK and an old version of Library X in order to accommodate Library Y. Any thoughts? I feel like the X.[024] releases are just snapshots of a development branch, > with X.6 being the stable release, and I wonder if X.[024] shouldn't > clearly be > labelled as that, regardless of what version number is chosen (be it 4.0, > 3.99.0, 4.0beta1 or whatever). > In my opinion the label "unstable release" communicates exactly that. I'm not sure what "development branch" communicates that "unstable release" doesn't? Regards, Philip C
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