[Geany] RFC: Bumping minimum GTK requirement to GTK 2.8

[Filip Gruszczyński]

If it allows some more functionality, then I'd be really happy to see it ;-)

2008/12/2 Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:33:26 +0100
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>
>> we are thinking about to change Geany's minimum requirement of GTK to
>> GTK 2.8 (currently it is 2.6).
>>
>> This would bring some advantages but obviously would prevent people
>> with GTK 2.6 systems using Geany.
>>
>>
>> So, is anyone still running GTK 2.6?
>
> GTK 2.6.0 was released in Dec 2004. On the first hand, I think even
> though this is a long time, there are still a number of systems
> running that version (Solaris, AIX, RHEL, SLES ...). On the other hand
> tools like GIMP are depending on much younger versions of GTK so a
> part of that users already needed to update their version of GTK. Maybe
> this step could be done after next major release. with putting a note to
> release notes.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
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