I not understand, you mean have some old version of some distro isn't support GTK+ 3 and them always with older version of all package - so why Geany need to be the last in them distro?
Geany need to go forward, and older distro will keep the old version of Geany same them keep the old version of GTK+ 2 and not support GTK+ 3 yet. Geany 1.24 and also Geany 0.21 it realy good software, but we can't to bog becausw have some older distor.
Regards, Yosef Or Boczko
בתאריך ד', נוב 13, 2013 בשעה 1:48 AM, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com כתב:
Why to switch to other toolkits?! I not understand what don't good in GTK+.
And also - why to keep GTK+ 2? GTK+ 3 avilable in all distro, also in older distro, it also work in Windows and also in Mac. this because GTK+ 3 released before almost three years.
Because many distros are more than 3 years old and still supported. Geany has users (and developers) in commercial and academic environments which will often be constrained to older (but still supported) versions of Red Hat, Scientific Linux, Suse etc.
Its fine for hobbyists to want to play with the latest, we only have one PC to change over, but institutions often have hundreds or thousands and have all sorts of specific software to ensure still works when they upgrade.
Cheers Lex