On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Marc Deslauriers <[email protected]> wrote: > gtk4 is currently at version 3.90. If I understand the new upstream versioning > scheme correctly[1], gtk4 won't have a stable API/ABI until around 4.6.
That is an obsolete proposal. The plan now [1] is for the stable version to start at 4.0. That stable version is supposed to be more like GTK+ 2.24 or 3.22. > Does this mean we'll be shipping an LTS release for 18.04 that contains > desktop > applications built with a version of gtk4 that is considered by upstream to > be a > pre-release version that we'll then need to support for 5 years? GNOME Developers have said that is their intent. [2] > How are we going to handle upgrading to the final API/ABI stable version that > developers are going to target with their applications? Developers outside of GNOME should continue to target GTK+ 3.22 until GTK+ 4.0 is released. If this is a problem for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, now is a great time to bring it up to GNOME since GNOME just released 3.25.1 and nothing has switched yet. [1] https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk/ [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2016-October/msg00033.html Thanks, Jeremy Bicha -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
