On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 19:00 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > - To be realistic, if GNOME-2.12 is released after GTK+-2.8, > most distributors are going to ship using them together. > > So, the release team could decide to go with 2.6 even with > the current GTK+ schedule, but the result then would be less > testing of what people actually ship.
Yeah, and that would significantly undermine the whole release process IMHO. If the value of having GNOME releases is to have the very latest GNOME technologies released as a stable, coherent and integrated set, then by creating a situation where distributors go off for themselves and figure out what *really* is the latest stable set of GNOME technologies, we really reduce the relevance of GNOME releases. > - For new APIs to be done well, we need language binding > author attention. If we decided to slip out the GTK+ schedule > a month or two and add more features, I'm not sure that those > features would get sufficient language binding author attention. That brings up another question ... what are language binding authors going to do if GNOME 2.12 targets GTK+ 2.6? What would probably make the most sense for them would be to make releases which target the GTK+ 2.8 APIs and let GNOME ship the older releases. Which would make the situation even more bizarre. Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list