On 6/8/05, Mark McLoughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > I guess there's quite a few benefits/risks to be weighed up here: > > - The benefit of having cool new rendering stuff in GNOME 2.12 > > - The benefit of being able to use all the other new APIs in GTK+ > 2.8 for GNOME 2.12 > > - The benefit of getting all this stuff tested early (i.e. before > GTK+ 2.8 is released, rather than after)
I'm all in favor of *testing* gtk 2.8 as much as possible now (so I think it should be left in jhbuild), but I'm very nervous about shipping with it at this point- we all know HEAD does not get as much testing as it should, and gtk 2.8 seems like some very big changes with potentially huge stability implications. Basically, unless Ubuntu breezy starts shipping it, or Fedora makes a very active push to get people to use it in Rawhide, I'm very nervous about shipping anything we'd call a .0 linking against gtk 2.8. Luis > - The extra incentive for people to help with getting the rendering > stuff optimized > > vs. > > - The risk of the GTK+ 2.8 schedule slipping, causing a slip in the > GNOME 2.12 schedule > > - The risk that performance problems with the rendering stuff might > put some people off using GNOME 2.12 > > > Although I was pretty nervous about this too at first, the benefits > certainly seem to outweigh the risks when you spell them out like that. > > Cheers, > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
