On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 06:46:08PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > I'm confused...could someone explain why we have glib/ gtk+ 2.2 in sid > and are migrating to gnome 2.1? we are migrating toward gnome 2.2. > I thought sid was frozen at gnome 2.0 until 2.2 was actually released. i think it was decided that the gnome 2.2 release candidate was going to be packaged for sid. > Also now is a rather bad time to be doing this since it confuses the > gcc 3.2 transition. but to do it at a good time would have required planning. and the gnome/gtk maintainers (thanks for all your hard work guys) dont seem to have a knack for that. :-) > For example glib/gtk+ 2.2 isn't even part of gnome 2.1 release so we > could be chasing after bugs due to that. i think some parts of gnome 2.1 depend on on glib/gtk+ 2.2. anyways, glib/gtk+ 2.0 and 2.2 should be api and abi compatible, so there shouldnt be too much trouble. -- gram
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