On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:52:12PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:34:48PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >>> On 04/08/2009 05:24 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: >>>>>> If only the latest release is "API-stable", by definition it's not >>>>>> stable. >>> >>> This cannot be deduced from that line. You need to review your math. >> >> Behdad's comment doesn't make sense in English. >> >> (Perhaps someone can help Behdad with that - or else explain to him >> what "API-stable" might mean). > > Get off your native-speaker high horse. I understood what he meant > completely.
What you should have said, if you chose to be accurate, is that you have inferred a meaning from the statement which more or less corresponds to Behdad's rant. By the way - would you like to help Behdad explain what he means by "API-stable", and how it relates to "review your math"? awai > > Here are the first two sentences: > Please download one of the latest releases in order to get an API-stable > version of cairo. You'll need both the cairo and pixman packages. > > See In-Progress Development (below) for details on getting and building > the latest pre-release source code if that's what you're looking for. > > > Now to me, that reads as a choice between API-stable or misc. > > Anyway, maybe you could manage to decipher the cryptic tomes of > http://www.cairographics.org/contact/ and work out the correct mailing > list to troll about Cairo? Hint: Not this one. Actually I was interested in the assertion made on this thread that cairo's API would be guaranteed to be compatible for the next 15 years. That's topical here. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
