Re: fontilus and GDK_USE_XFT
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 22:23, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> On Jan 7, Sean Middleditch wrote:
>
> > This is a likely annoying and mostly unrelated question, but why are
> > the packages called libgtk2.0_2.2* (or libglib2.0_2.2*, etc.) - it
> > seems silly to me to declare the package the 2.0 variant, but at
> > version 2.2...
>
> Version 2.2 is the latest version of GTK+ that uses the GTK+2.0 API/ABI.
> It is fully compatible with GTK+ 2.0. The package names stay the same
> because programs that use on those packages will still work with the new
> version 2.2 and shouldn't need to change their dependencies.
>
> The packages are called libgtk2.0-0 (instead of just libgtk2-0) because
> the next version of GTK+ may be numbered 2.4 and be incompatible with
> the current version. Then you would have some packages depending on
> libgtk2.0 and others depending on libgtk2.4.
No, Gtk+, just like Gnome will be ABI/API compatible for 2.4. 3.0 will
be ABI incompatible.
Cheers
--
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net
#2 0x4205a2cc in printf ("Oh my %s\n", preferred_deity) from
/lib/i686/libc.so.6 printf ("Oh my %s\n", preferred_deity);
Segmentation fault
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