16.07.2016 12:20, Joost van der Sluis пишет:
Op 12-07-16 om 09:18 schreef zeljko:
I really don't know what kind of drugs gtk devels are using.
I think they are recovering from their drug-addiction right now.
It seems they just changed supplier. ;)
Seems that some gtk-developers where on a hackathon where they discussed
the instability-issues. And the fact that they don't like the situation
that most gtk-applications still use gtk-2. (Gimp, Inkscape, Geany, etc,
etc) So they came with a proposal and posted it online...
But - maybe - they had a little bit too much beer when they wrote it,
with the result that no-one understood what they really meant. The blog
above being one of the reactions.
But it is still a proposal, in the mean time discussed and improved a lot.
As it looks now, they will define 3.26 stable. Not 'just-a-little-bit'
stable, but really stable. To be able to move forward, they will release
4.0. This version won't be stable until it reaches (by approximation)
version 4.6. Then this will be the stable version (alongside 3.26) and
they will start working on version 5.0...
This way you can choose as a developer to use the stable versions (3.26
-> 4.6 -> 5.X) or you can use the unstable versions, which could break
compatibility every half year.
And stable releases will break every 2 years. ;) Stable API? Forget
about it (nobody made any promises).
So for Lazarus it seems like we can finally do some serious work on the
gtk3-port targeting 3.26 which will be stable for at least a few years.
More info, see among others:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/Lifecycle
This is just an example of how premature blog posts about half-baked
proposals made a PR disaster out of nothing.
Personally I hope that everything will be good. We need GTK3 widgetset.
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Maxim Ganetsky mailto:[email protected]
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