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@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ until the CVS HEAD version is useable. (But note, the Win32 backend
 has never been claimed to be "production quality", although it works
 surprisingly well for the GIMP.)
 
+Note that right now (January 2002), the gtk-1-3-win32-production
+branch has more functionality and somewhat cleaner code in gdk/win32.
+The code that handles pixmaps and images (DIB sections) and colormaps
+(palettes) has been substantially refactored and cleaned up. (For
+instance, 256-color mode now work.) Those improvements have not yet
+been done here.
+
 Building GTK+ on Win32
 ======================