Re: Minutes of the gtk+ team IRC meeting - 2010-06-08

2010-06-08 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi,

On 09/06/10 00:49, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
 • how to deal with gtk-requiring libraries, with regards to the API/ABI break
 - libraries will have to do an ABI bump to match the ABI bump in gtk
 - we need to communicate this on the various venues and remind the maintainers
 ACTION: mclasen to draft a mail for gtk-devel-list/desktop-announce

Forgive me if I misunderstood it, but isn't this the sort of thing that would be
avoided if GTK+ used symbol versioning? If so, using it from 3.0 onwards may be
a good idea.

Cheers,
Emilio
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Re: Minutes of the gtk+ team IRC meeting - 2010-06-08

2010-06-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi,

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
poch...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On 09/06/10 00:49, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
 • how to deal with gtk-requiring libraries, with regards to the API/ABI break
 - libraries will have to do an ABI bump to match the ABI bump in gtk
 - we need to communicate this on the various venues and remind the 
 maintainers
 ACTION: mclasen to draft a mail for gtk-devel-list/desktop-announce

 Forgive me if I misunderstood it, but isn't this the sort of thing that would 
 be
 avoided if GTK+ used symbol versioning? If so, using it from 3.0 onwards may 
 be
 a good idea.

If you read the recent thread,
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-May/msg00088.html

as it points out, symbol versioning only helps with symbols. The ABI
bump would still be required for types, properties, signals, etc.

Havoc
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