[Github-comments] [geany/geany] WIP: Remove GTK+2 Support (#2602)

[elextr]

@elextr commented on this pull request.



> @@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ G_BEGIN_DECLS
  */
 #define GEANY_API_VERSION 239
 
-
-/* when gtk2 and gtk3 were both supported at the same time this was used
- * to prevent loading gtk2 plugins with gtk3 Geany or vice versa. */
+/* hack to have a different ABI when built with different GTK major versions
+ * because loading plugins linked to a different one leads to crashes.
+ * Only GTK3 is currently supported. */

Why not make the "hack" official and extendable for the next major incompatibility be it GTK4 or whatever, but for now only one major ABI is available.

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