Hi, On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <poch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/06/10 00:49, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> • how to deal with gtk-requiring libraries, with regards to the API/ABI break >> - libraries will have to do an ABI bump to match the ABI bump in gtk >> - we need to communicate this on the various venues and remind the >> maintainers >> ACTION: mclasen to draft a mail for gtk-devel-list/desktop-announce > > Forgive me if I misunderstood it, but isn't this the sort of thing that would > be > avoided if GTK+ used symbol versioning? If so, using it from 3.0 onwards may > be > a good idea.
If you read the recent thread, http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-May/msg00088.html as it points out, symbol versioning only helps with symbols. The ABI bump would still be required for types, properties, signals, etc. Havoc _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
