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> But the important thing, is to test the software!

Mandate the world to do test is not a good idea sine the philosophy of the world is to make it work.

>I don't think this isn't really any different than choosing your target device version for say, iOS, Android, or macOS.

No it's not. In case of device only a small bunch of things break. For gtk+ everything breaks without a fix.

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> No it's not. In case of device only a small bunch of things break. For gtk+ everything breaks without a fix.

That's because about every other year they have the equivalent of a major ABI break (and they you target explicitly the newer version or stay locked to the old version) and the platform ships both.

This is semantically what we will be providing.

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