On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:10:46AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > I know this may sound harsh, but: If you want things to work differently, > send patches. > Patches to the migration guide are welcome too. > > The bulk of the work done on GTK4 so far has been done by 3 or 4 people, > only one of > which gets payed to work fulltime on GTK+. > > Maintaining compatibility layers costs and constantly gets in the way of > large-scale > refactorings like the ones that are happening in gtk 3.9x now. > > Note that we haven't really asked application developers to port to the > current 3.9x releases > yet, because they are still in flux.
About the cost of compatibility layers, it reminds me an economics principle with game theory and cooperation, for example with the prisoner's dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Strategy_for_the_prisoner's_dilemma With cooperation and compatibility layers in GTK, GTK would move forward less quickly, but it would maybe yield a better outcome globally when taking into account higher-level libraries and applications. -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
