On 1 October 2011 13:44, Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
It seems to me like this group of users would be very small and require that they are: - Enterprise/LTS users running a GUI - And who are willing to install unsupported software.
That may be the case more often than one might thinnk it is... Think of all the people who have neither a choice in OS nor root access to their machine. I work at a university, where this is commonly the case.
- And whos distro doesn't backport newer libraries. - And who are developers, can compile Geany but can't compile GTK+.
Compiling Geany is easy, compiling GTK is another order of magnitude. I might be able to compile GTK, but I certainly do not want to. I think I tried once, escaped dependency hell without injuries but then decided that two GTK installation one one machine suck.
- And who are not satisfied with existing supported Geany packages.
Again, as a user on say RHEL, you might not even have a precompiled Geany package available.
I would just be curious to know how many (or what percentage of) users fall into this group.
I do, unfortunately.
So, in conclusion: I think GTK 2.18 (RHEL 6) seems reasonable.
Cheers
Alex