[Xfce4-commits] r17207 - libxfcegui4/trunk/libxfcegui4

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jeff Franks wrote:
>>>With all the talk of deprecation what about considering Xfce 5.0 rather 
>>>than 4.4. It would give us the opportuniy to clean out the Xfce4 source 
>>>tree by removing unnecessary widgets and code, without Xfce4 ABI/API 
>>>breakage. We could reduce the number of SVN modules and hence 
>>>distributable packages as well. These are things that have all been 
>>>mentioned before over the past few months but not seriously considered. 
>>>With such a long Xfce release cycle... maybe there's no time like the 
>>>present.
>>
>>We lack manpower here. My feeling is that with all the good stuff that
>>will come with 4.4 (python bindings, C++ bindings, Perl bindings,
>>libexo, new panel, new xffm, Thunar, ...) we'll see more people joining
>>Xfce and so we could probably break after 4.4.
> 
> I'm always available to help with some of the C grunge work.

Well, somebody would need to maintain the 4.2 sources for atleast 1/2-1
year, until 5.0 is stabilized.

> Jeff.

Benedikt