On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 01:38:33PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > GTK+ does it, Qt does it; and I'm willing to bet there are more > applications linking against either of them than there are linking > against libvirt. I don't think that's a positive example. As a developer who has used GTK for multiple apps, I *hate* their frequent API deprecations during minor updates. It is a constant battle to keep app code compiling cleanly even within a single releae, no to mention the even greater pain of trying to do GTK2 and GTK3 in parallel. Sure, this deprecation and deletion of code benefits the GTK maintainers, but the cost of creating ongoing pain for every single application developer. That's not a net win IMHO as the set of app developers is much larger. As a counter point, Microsoft Windows never breaks its APIs and that has many orders of magnitude more app developers than GTK/Qt The fact that libvirt never breaks API is one of our greatest selling points. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
