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

[Nick Treleaven]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:48:41 +0200
Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> 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.

> Yeah, I think it's weird especially because the fix is really trivial
> (see below).

> >>>> 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.

Maybe they would accept a patch?

Regards,
Nick