Elle Stone (ellestone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 05/21/2018 11:13 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote: > > Just to be clear, the toolkit update here is not*just* a necessary evil. > > It will also be totally awesome, even feature-wise! > > <snip> > > > Simply to get there, we have to pass through an "unstable" phase, that's > > all there is to it. > > Apparently GTK+3.22 is considered "long term stable" (that is, supported for > three years? starting from when?) and is the last minor release in the GTK+3 > series: https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk/ Just to clarify, the "unstable" phase happens because we're migrating the toolkit, not because the toolkit we're migrating to is unstable... > Will the port from GTK+3 to GTK+4 be as difficult as the port from GTK+2 to > GTK+3? Looking at various NEWS postings in the 3.93/.92/etc releases leading > up to GTK+4 (http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/), it looks like a > fair amount of stuff will change. I guess we'll see. The major concern I have is related to our own ABI compatibility. Is there a way to decouple our ABI version from the GTK version? This is what forced us to stick with gtk2 for that long timeframe, and that sucked... Bye, Simon -- simon@xxxxxxxx http://simon.budig.de/ _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
