[dlitz]

I don't see the big problem. Lots of other libraries already work this way. Perhaps most of them.

If you're shipping binary packages, you need to build them in a clean chrooted environment anyway (such as pbuilder/sbuilder/docker or a VM) or you're going to end up with binaries that depend on the latest glibc point release that happens to be installed on your system.

[spriggan3]

> depend on the latest glibc point release that happens to be installed on your system.

glibc doesn't break API dramatically with each new version ... Gtk does and that's an insane burden put on developers using that thing. You can't develop stable tools with an ecosystem that keeps on breaking. Why should I bother with Gtk when I can learn a more stable GUI framework ? that's right, and I don't. Then the Gnome Foundation complains people aren't using Gtk ... I see a lot of Gnome projects started then abandoned, only to see a new project doing exactly the same thing being built from scratch afterwards. For instance, they are working on a new IDE Gnome builder, who the hell needs this when multiple projects like Gedit get very little contribution today ? To me the Gnome foundation is wasting money with all that stuff, while investing very little in the documentation for instance. Their website is a mess.

[audidude]

> I see a lot of Gnome projects started then abandoned, only to see a new project doing exactly the same thing being built from scratch afterwards. For instance, they are working on a new IDE Gnome builder, who the hell needs this when multiple projects like Gedit get very little contribution today ?

"They" → me

Like seriously, me. It's not the GNOME foundation. They've given me no money. I do get occasionally contributions from the same people that build Gedit. I also spent most of a decade contributing to another well known IDE for Mono. So this isn't my first rodeo.

A significantly amount of work I've done on Builder HAS flowed upstream into both GTK and Gedit, so clearly you have no clue what you're talking about.

> To me the Gnome foundation is wasting money with all that stuff, while investing very little in the documentation for instance. Their website is a mess.

Again, your money to the foundation has never gone to Builder, but I also hope to have a large demo regarding documentation to show at GUADEC, should you choose to attend.