On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 22:23, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Jan 7, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > > This is a likely annoying and mostly unrelated question, but why are > > the packages called libgtk2.0_2.2* (or libglib2.0_2.2*, etc.) - it > > seems silly to me to declare the package the 2.0 variant, but at > > version 2.2... > > Version 2.2 is the latest version of GTK+ that uses the GTK+2.0 API/ABI. > It is fully compatible with GTK+ 2.0. The package names stay the same > because programs that use on those packages will still work with the new > version 2.2 and shouldn't need to change their dependencies. > > The packages are called libgtk2.0-0 (instead of just libgtk2-0) because > the next version of GTK+ may be numbered 2.4 and be incompatible with > the current version. Then you would have some packages depending on > libgtk2.0 and others depending on libgtk2.4.
No, Gtk+, just like Gnome will be ABI/API compatible for 2.4. 3.0 will be ABI incompatible. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net #2 0x4205a2cc in printf ("Oh my %s\n", preferred_deity) from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 printf ("Oh my %s\n", preferred_deity); Segmentation fault
