[Gtk-sharp-list] Announcing Gtk# releases 2.5.5 and 1.9.5

[Ben Maurer]

Hey,

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 21:23 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > Announcing the joint release of versions 2.5.5 and 1.9.5 of Gtk#.  These
> > releases are unstable development releases.  They are not
> > parallel-installable with each other, but either release can be
> > parallel-installed with the latest stable release.
> 
> We highly encourage people to *not* use features available in Gtk# 2.5.5
> as that will limit the set of platforms where their code will be able to
> run.
> 
> Both are compatible, but people should test and use Gtk# 1.9.5 if they
> hope that their software will run on more than 10% of the available
> installations available today.
> 
> Gtk# 2.5.5 depends on Gtk 2.6 which first shipped in GNOME 2.10 and very
> few distributions have it.  This means that your users will not be able
> to run your software until they have made a switch to GNOME 2.10.

This is a helpful reference to know what apis are new in GTK 2.6 (and
thus would *not* be available on gtk# 1.9.x):

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/ix05.html

-- Ben