On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> Bad thing is - GTK+ 1.3 (which'll be released as GTK+ 2.0
> when final) won't be back-compatible. Preloading the new
> libraries before old applications does no good, and OWen
> said every application would have to undergo atleast
> some minor changes to use GTK+ 2.0.
nothing is ever perfect from day one, and sometimes to improve a product
you must break backwards compatibility. Bill Gates have yet to
understand it.
BTW, I'm still in the dark about why not use OO for libraries such as
this (Graphic toolkits).
Anyone interested in working on such a library? a c++ toolkit
from-scratch? there's an Israeli startup taking on Gnome/Gtk, Eazel and
Helix together with a GPL kit of their own, and they are looking for
people.
--
Ira Abramov, GNU/Linux advocate.
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