[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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