[Geany-Devel] Gtk2 vs Gtk3 (was. Re: A direction for Geany)
Yosef Or Boczko
yoseforb at xxxxx
Wed Nov 13 15:22:15 UTC 2013
בתאריך ד', נוב 13, 2013 בשעה 12:46 PM, Lex Trotman
<elextr at gmail.com> כתב:
> [...]
>>
>> I'm *really really really* tired of this topic. This comes up every
>> now and then, with the same bulled points over and over and with no
>> outcome at all (we're still at 2.16 after a couple of discussions
>> even though nobody explicitly says we need to be at this specific
>> version).
>>
>
> Agree, AFAIK only one thing "needs" 2.16, and thats the nightly
> builder (which runs 2.16 checks and the windows nightly) and the
> windows release builder (whatever that is?) that includes it in the
> bundles.
>
> Note, the windows nightly builder web page actually says its built
> against 2.14.7, does anyone know if thats right?
>
I sure isn't right.
You can to find GTK+ 3.6 and GTK+ 2.24.
I build myself GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3 on Windows,
it possible.
>
>>
>> Can't we just define a simple rule that's written out somewhere as
>> to which GTK+ version to support. I don't mean a specific version
>> number but a rule like "The one released X years/month ago" or "the
>> version shipped in (enterprise) distro ABC" or "re-evaluated in a
>> grand IRC meeting every Y month". This would mean implicit bumping
>> of the minimum (by accepting patches that bump the minimum while
>> observing the rule) as required. Then we don't have to have this
>> tiresome argument over and over.
>>
>
> I'd agree that a planned schedule based on a metric would be an
> improvement. At least both developers and users would have some
> certainty about things.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
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