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Developer Platform?

Posted Feb 6, 2003 10:30 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814)
Parent article: GNOME 2.2.0 released

I'm a bit confused - why is it called "The GNOME 2.2.0 Desktop and Developer Platform"? I don't use GNOME - is this supposed to be primarily used by developers or?

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Developer Platform?

Posted Feb 6, 2003 11:30 UTC (Thu) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link]

The "Desktop" part of the release is the basic desktop environment and utilities -> definitely for users, it rocks way hard. The "Developer Platform" part of the release is the set of libraries for which we guarantee API/ABI compatibility during the 2.x releases -> definitely for developers.

Because the Desktop is based on the Developer Platform, and is usually the first large software stack to use the new features available, we release them together. Then third party developers are able to target the 2.2 release, being certain of the functionality that is available to them.