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

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 10/09/2010 01:50, Lex Trotman a écrit :
> On 10 September 2010 01:10, Nick Treleaven
> <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:09:18 +1000
>> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> [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 :-(.
>>
>> This seems bad for a toolkit as important as GTK.
> 
> True, but being philosophical this morning, I'd observe its a common
> problem of volunteer supported software, no one is interested in
> supporting old stuff, and those in the GTK team paid by companies are
> of course only interested in things the companies are interested in.
> It shouldn't be marked resolved though!
Yeah, I think it's weird especially because the fix is really trivial
(see below).

>>>> 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.
>>
>> I wasn't suggesting downgrading, that would be next to impossible on a
>> Gnome system. I meant having a parallel install of GTK. I haven't tried
>> it myself but have heard people say they do that.
Yes, it works fine, but needs to be installed in another prefix (say
~/old-gtk), and building and/or running an application against it needs
tweaking (pkg-config's path, LD path, etc.). It works, but isn't really
convenient though.

>>>> 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
>>
>> Latest Fedora still seems to package it:
>> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=glade2&system=fedora
> 
> Must be using an older GTK or maybe they hacked a fix.
As said, the only thing that's needed is to move includes outside header
guards, and you're done.

That is, good night [1] folks!
Colomban

[1] at least for me!