[moptar]

For all the complaints, this sounds like a great deal for the Gtk developers. They don't have to plan ahead of time which version is going to be the stable one. If one ends up working well and they want to start on new ideas, they can just leave it unchanged, declare it to be the stable one and move on. Developers are people too and they would want a system that makes it easy for them.

Is it really a problem for application developers either? When you start your project, just pick the latest stable version and stay with that throughout. You can ignore all the subsequent updates and be sure that your stable version's API won't change.

The unstable versions are surely just for people who want to play with the new features early, not people who are worried about compatibility.

[tremon]

Developers are people too and they would want a system that makes it easy for them.

I don't want the world to be composed of people that are only there to make the world easy for themselves.