Author: JT Smith
The API frozen Developer Platform Beta, “Everyone’s Excited and Confused”,
is ready for your porting pleasure! It is available for immediate download:
is ready for your porting pleasure! It is available for immediate download:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases/gnome-2.0-lib-beta1/ This release marks the first API frozen release of the GNOME 2.0 Developer Platform, and is 100% parallel installable with the latest GNOME 1.x platform libraries. The GNOME 2.0 Developer Platform provides many technical advantages over GNOME 1.x, including full multi-lingual text support, high-quality anti-aliased text, accessibility support, substantial API and usability improvements to the libraries and widgets, and greater ease of development. Please file bug reports for this release at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ Porting Your GNOME Applications =============================== Now is the perfect time to begin porting your applications to the new GNOME platform libraries! The GNOME 2.0 Porting Guide offers tips and guidelines for porting applications to the new platform, and API docs exist for many of the platform libraries. GNOME 2.0 Porting Guide: http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/porting/ GNOME 2.0 API Documentation: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/ (Please note that whilst most modules contain API docs already, many are not yet available on the main API documentation web page. Please check the tarballs for API docs, and bug maintainers with inadequate documentation.) GNOME 2.0 Desktop Release Progress ================================== Often the best way to solve a porting problem is to check out someone else's code; the best way to do that right now is to keep up with the porting progress on the GNOME 2.0 Desktop modules. The dot.plan website includes a building guide for the very in-development GNOME 2.0 Desktop, the aforementioned porting guide, and a list of modules and their status, amongst other things (like pretty screenshots). http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/ Many of the core GNOME developers are 'eating their own dogfood' by using the GNOME 2.0 Desktop day-to-day. Keep in mind that right now, building the GNOME 2.0 Desktop from CVS is NOT for the faint-hearted! However, if your idea of support is prompt integration of your patches, please consider testing, using and contributing to it. George Lebl's vicious-build-scripts are the fastest way to build the current CVS HEAD code, and a guide to using them is also available on dot.plan: http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/notes/ Thank you to the many hackers who have already begun porting, testing and contributing to GNOME 2.0... Happy porting! - The GNOME 2.0 Release Team -- "When there's public debate and mass hysteria, that's when the patches roll in." - Michael Meeks _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list gnome-announce-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
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