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Subject: Re: GTK+-2.0.2 package description
From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Lawrence Mayer dsg <Lawrence.Mayer@dsg.ki.se>
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On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 00:11, Lawrence Mayer dsg wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Thanks alot for your quick reply.
> 
> Since the old pkg-descr may already have caused some confusion, I suggest
> that the last paragraph of the new pkg-descr quote directly from the GTK+
> homepage www.gtk.org/download/ as follows:
> 
> "GTK+-2.0 is a stable release. But many applications still require
> GTK+-1.2, the previous stable version. You can have the runtime and
> development environments for both GTK+-2.0 and GTK+-1.2 installed
> simultaneously on your computer."
> 
> By explicitly labeling GTK+-2.0 as "stable" in the pkg-descr, we can help
> undo some of the confusion the old pkg-descr may have caused. In
> particular, the explicit "stable" label can help motivate FreeBSD ports of
> stable software based on GTK+-2.0.
> 
> What do you think?

I like it.  I'm committing it now.

Joe

> 
> 
> On 12 May 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > This is an old pkg-descr, and hasn't been updated when GTK 2.0 went
> > gold.  I have changed the last paragraph to read:
> >
> > "This version is binary incompatible with the previous release, GTK
> > 1.2."
> >
> > If you'd like the pkg-descr to say something else, please let me know.
> > Else I'll commit this.
> >
> > Joe
> 
> 
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