RE: [java-gnome-hackers] API freeze - reality

[Luca De R. <pie...@li...>]

Il lun, 2004-01-05 alle 13:20, Jeffrey Morgan ha scritto:
> >   I am becoming increasingly worried that we may not be able 
> > to meet the
> > API freeze. There is an awful lot of work to be done.
> 
> I agree that there is an awful lot of work to be done but
> I am still optimistic that we can meet the API freeze date
> of Feb 16th.  The past few weeks have been holiday time and
> things have moved slowly.  Now that is behind us and I
> expect to have a lot of time to work on the bindings.
> 
> > 
> > IMHO, the release schedule with an API freeze is wrong for a language
> > binding - most of our time is spent modifying api. The reason for
> > freezes are so that the other parts of the project can catch up - ui,
> > translations, bug testing, etc. 
> > With the current schedule, we will probably have very little 
> > work to do
> > between the start of the api freeze and the start of mass 
> > development of
> > the next major version. However, we will be very busy the rest of the
> > time.
> 
> Perhaps we can use this time to fix bugs, enhance examples, and
> write documentation.

> > To make our plans more realistic, I would like to propose that we now
> > concentrate on designing an API rather than implementation 
> > and then add
> > the implementation either at the same time or just after designing the
> > api. We may then spend the time after the freeze implementing our api
> > (as well as documenting, translating and creating example apps).
> > 
> > For example, I would like to add this java api to TreeSelection now:
> > public TreeRow[] getRows(){}
> > and then spend a long time doing the complicated 
> > implementation (based on
> > a function which returns a GList *) once all the api has been 
> > added for
> > gtk 2.4
> > 
> > Does anybody disagree strongly with this?
> 
> I agree with this approach.
It seems a good solution. In fact I was always thinking what we are
supposed to do between the api freeze and the final release.
I know that one of the major reasons is to not break api/abi for
applications developers, so at the moment it doesn't really apply to us
since there are few j-g apps around.
Anyhow we can use post-freeze time to fix bugs, write docs... too.

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Luca De Rugeriis <pie...@li...>