On 7/21/06, Mike Kestner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 00:03 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > * Should we include Gtk# in the Bindings suite? > > - the release management issues have largely been solved, aside from Gtk# > > not being split between Platform and Desktop (stable and unstable) APIs > > which is pretty important in terms of ISV/ISD communication and so on > > I have resisted this split, and I think the above statement gets to the > heart of my issue. There is this idea that it is not possible to > guarantee API stability for bindings of Desktop libraries. We (Gtk#) > have made no stability exceptions for these APIs to our users. That may > seem insane to some. It may make us jump through some additional hoops > down the road, if the desktop developers choose to exercise their > prerogative to break things. However, it has not been an issue for us > to this point. > > We bind six libraries that fall in the desktop set currently. I cannot > split out three of them because the APIs are included in gnome-sharp.dll > currently, and to split them out would break API compat for my users.
Are you saying that parallel installation of libraries is impossible in the mono world? I don't see how this has to break API compatibility for your current users. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
