On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 22:45 +0200, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: > 2013/9/26 Murray Cumming <murr...@murrayc.com>: > > because we cannot yet break the ABI to add Gtk::Actionable as a base > > class for several classes: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm/commit/?id=3381c0aea10891a2dccc49b5e450fd497a3cb807 > > FWIW: > From my perspective, it would be far more desirable to have complete > and high quality C++ bindings which break the ABI more often than > GTK+, rather than to have incomplete bindings which keep the ABI.
I understand, but there are huge practical difficulties when we break the ABI, doing a parallel-installable version of gtkmm. It would take about 2 years for packages to get into the major distros, and another year for applications to start using it. This would create work for us and generally annoy people. We've seen this with the gtkmm-2.0 to gtkmm-2.4 transition and with the GTK+-2.0 to GTK+-3.0 (and gtkmm) transitions. I think it's not worth it until there are more major issues that we would fix. -- Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
