[Gambas-user] Some quotes and rant

[Jussi Lahtinen]

It's a shame. GTK+ is very widely used and it makes me wonder what kind of
policy other developers have taken on it. Maybe there are some "secret"
tips how to deal with it GTK+ policy.


Jussi

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 12:51 PM Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Linux policy : "Never break the user space API!"
>
> GTK+3 policy: "Always try to break the API as much as possible at each
> minor version so that nobody can write a GTK+ program that behaves
> correctly during more than one month. And if you can implement a feature
> with two levels of indirection, do that with ten levels, to make
> external developers unable to understand how things work, and to avoid
> any possibility of having a fast GUI".
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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