Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

Posted Jul 18, 2008 13:51 UTC (Fri) by colinleroy (guest, #40525)
In reply to: Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register) by jordanb
Parent article: Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

The move from gtk+1 to gtk+2 wasn't particularly painful. Gtk+2 came out and everyone had many years to upgrade

Were you developing a GTK+ software at the time? If it took many years to upgrade, it was because developers were busy rewriting working code to switch to GTK+2, because it was clear that GTK+1 was going abandoned.

Breaking APIs and removing deprecated stuff for the sake of the embedded developers (the ones that do sponsor GTK+ development these days) is going to be just more of the same for developers of software that already has a lot of code, including deprecated code.

I'm not particularly fond of rewriting whole parts of my apps every few years just because a new widget is the new hotness and the one that existed when I coded my stuff is now deemed crappy and unmaintained.