[Lazarus] GTK 3.0

Maxim Ganetsky ganmax at narod.ru
Sun Jul 17 22:01:03 CEST 2016


16.07.2016 14:11, Joost van der Sluis пишет:
> Op 16-07-16 om 13:00 schreef Maxim Ganetsky:
>>>
>>> This way you can choose as a developer to use the stable versions (3.26
>>> -> 4.6 -> 5.X) or you can use the unstable versions, which could break
>>> compatibility every half year.
>>
>> And stable releases will break every 2 years. ;) Stable API? Forget
>> about it (nobody made any promises).
>
> Not exactly. They will introduce a new stable release every two years.
>
> But you can keep using the older stable releases if you want. All major
> releases can be used parallel to each other. Like now is done with 2 and
> three, in the future also 4 and 5.
> They think they will support a stable release for about 5 years, but
> could be longer, like they do now with gtk2.

This statement is not supported by info from your link AFAICS.

Anyway, as I wrote:

"This is just an example of how premature blog posts about half-baked 
proposals made a PR disaster out of nothing.

Personally I hope that everything will be good. We need GTK3 widgetset."

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Best regards,
  Maxim Ganetsky                  mailto:ganmax at narod.ru


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