Just when you thought you could rest....

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 00:05, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:15:59 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Here comes GNOME 2.5.x.  We should see a 2.4.1 before 2.5.0, but those
> > wanting to test should note that the GNOME people have published the 2.6
> > release schedule at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/.  GNOME 2.5 will be
> > maintained in my CVS repo just as 2.3 was.  I plan on updating
> > marcusmerge a bit to be more user-friendly, and knowledgeable about
> > updates.  If anyone has any ideas on making it better, let me know.
> 
> Sweet, I think the 2.5.x series will be the most fun to test. Isn't it 
> will break few API like GTK 2.4 for file selector, new Nautilus (rewrite?) 
> and etc?

Technically, it should remain API compatible with GNOME 2.4.  That is,
GNOME 2.4 apps should run in GNOME 2.6 with just a recompile.  In fact,
it really should be ABI compatible, but shared lib version numbers will
change.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > Joe
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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