On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 20:48 +0000, Piscium wrote: > In Fedora, the package name for the current gtkmm version is "gtkmm24". Note > that there is no dash nor dot. I like that. Easier to type.
The package name is a different issue, and not one for us. > So my suggestion for the next version would be "gtkmm30". No, I'd like our pkg-config .pc files to be consistent with other projects such as GTK+. > In the same vein, my suggestion for the next version of glibmm would be > "glibmm2x". > > The x is a compromise. On one hand it is prefixed with 2, so it indicates > that it is a binding for glib 2. The x itself indicates a cut with a past (x > looks like scissors, of course). Then when glib 3 appears on the scene we > could have "glibmm30". That really seems too confusing. > If between now and then other ABI breaks are needed in the 2 series, we would > have two versions to spare: "glibmm2y" and glibmm2z". Hopefully they won't be > needed. > > Alternatively if someone were to ask what the x in "glibmm2x" stands for, we > could say that it stands for eXtraordinary! :-) -- [email protected] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
