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The post says that gtk4 will be API stable after ~18 months of minor releases. It all boils down to naming conventions. Dot-zero is the new beta...
by jpfr 10y ago
The post says that gtk4 will be API stable after ~18 months of minor releases.
It all boils down to naming conventions. Dot-zero is the new beta...
- captainmuon 10y agoNo, the naming convention is just a red herring. The problem is that what they call the stable version will not receive any new features, just bugfixes. For them, stable means frozen in time. Compare it to Gtk 2.x, which was "stable" in another sense. I could write a program for Gtk 2.12 and it would still work unchanged with Gtk 2.28 - even getting new features. When I think of a "stable" version, I mean something that is still actively developed and receives new features - but where the developers make sure that there are no breaking changes. So not a beta, but not a legacy/LTS version either. They are more thinking about a "frozen" or "LTS" version - they just don't call it such.