On 07 Sep 2003 10:08:51 -0400 burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whose friends with someone in the GTK dev group? Tell them to get > their sh*t together. Why on earth would they make GTK 2.* incompatible > with GTK 1.* clients? > Bulletin for these morons: backwards compatiblity *is* a best practise > and development objective. > </rant>
Maybe you should widen your field of vision. Almost everything in the open software arena is done this way - glibc, kernel, qt, kde, gnome. The few closed source vendors (ex. Realplay) who choose to offer their product for linux fight this battle every day. The only reason I can still use Realplay is that Mozilla offers binaries and gentoo offers a compatability library series that allows use of the older glibc/gcc combination. GTK is just following the established path, miserable as it may be. Yes, in an ideal world there would be a stable API for everything, and new versions would not be a big problem. Pigs will fly first. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
