GTK Ticked-Off

[Collins Richey]

On 07 Sep 2003 10:08:51 -0400
burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:

> Whose friends with someone in the GTK dev group? Tell them to get
> their sh*t together. Why on earth would they make GTK 2.* incompatible
> with GTK 1.* clients? 
> Bulletin for these morons: backwards compatiblity *is* a best practise
> and development objective.
> </rant>

Maybe you should widen your field of vision.  Almost everything in the
open software arena is done this way - glibc, kernel, qt, kde, gnome. 
The few closed source vendors (ex. Realplay) who choose to offer their
product for linux fight this battle every day.  The only reason I can
still use Realplay is that Mozilla offers binaries and gentoo offers a
compatability library series that allows use of the older glibc/gcc
combination.

GTK is just following the established path, miserable as it may be.

Yes, in an ideal world there would be a stable API for everything, and
new versions would not be a big problem.  Pigs will fly first.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.