On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:36:49PM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
I think it's a gross exageration to compare such an speciality app with one that uses the standard toolkit. Even windows broke such apps as VMWare, and nobody complained. But regular apps written to the standard toolkit still work on Windows 15+ years later.
I grant that it's different when you talk about toolkits versus things like glibc and a.out where recompiling fixes most problems. Source compatibility and binary compatibility are different.
But, considering that I don't see qt 2.x around anymore (it was in RH9 but not FC1), and it's neither source nor binary compatible with qt 3.x, and I don't see a lot of other older compatibility stuff around, I wouldn't be suprised if gtk+ went to Extras after nothing in Core needed it. We don't include gtk+ 1.0.x, even though it's also incompatible with gtk+ 1.2.
John Thacker