On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 04:19:30AM +0000, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > 4. Maintainers of libraries that depend on GTK (such as GtkSourceView, VTE, > WebKitGTK) are concerned about having to maintain essentially a separate > library for each unstable release.
When GTK+ breaks the API, it doesn't mean that a higher-level library needs to break API too. For example, GtkTextView has a quite stable API, so I think GtkSourceView will still have a stable API too, to keep backward compatibility during GtkSourceView 4. > Did I forget anything? It is expected that GNOME apps will follow the unstable GTK+ versions. But some GNOME apps (or other libraries, for that matter) are developed almost entirely by people contributing during their spare time. And the amount of spare time/energy/willingness to maintain code can vary widely between development cycles. This includes gedit. I'm not sure it is a good idea for gedit to follow the unstable versions of GTK+. -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
