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by bryanlarsen 1956 days ago
To me it communicates a commitment that they'll never have any significant breaking change ever again without changing their name, fork style.
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Yeah like how Firefox got rid of XUL extensions in version 57.
An insignificant breaking change is still a breaking change; and over time they build up. This may explain why so many developers have been unhappy with GTK3.