[Geany-devel] Glade 2.12 won't build with recent GTK

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Thu Sep 9 12:09:18 UTC 2010


On 9 September 2010 21:01, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:15:55 +0200
> Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
>
>> Since Glade 2.x doesn't really exist anymore (its out-of-date and
>> couldn't even be compiled with recent GTK version [1]), I don't think it
>> is reasonable to think that every possible contributor have it.
> ...
>> [1] at least it wasn't possible without fixing an issue in GTK 2.20, see
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618639
>
> So part of GTK 2.x isn't usable? Why won't they fix the bug? Surely
> deprecated stuff should be supported until 3.x.

With GTK, in general deprecated seems to mean unsupported, so unlikely :-(.

>
> I suppose the only workaround for Erik is to install an earlier GTK to
> build Glade 2.12 with and regenerate the interface.c file.

Downgrading a GTK version can have major follow-on effects on all the
things that depend on it, I for one won't be doing it.

>
> Glade 2.12.2 is about 2.5 years old so I think it's not too old for GTK
> to drop support for it.

Nobody is interested in it, its even hard to find a download of 2.12
now.  In fact Geany probably should have a tarball on the hacking page
with the GTK docs.

Note that Glade 3.7 (current) claims to support GTK2.8 but only via
libglade loading XML, not code generation like interface.c.  That
would entail a major change in Geany and another dependency
(libglade).

Cheers
Lex

>
> Regards,
> Nick
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