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

[Filip Gruszczyński]

How did this topic end? Have you decided to bump GTK version?

2008/12/3 Filip Gruszczyński <gruszczy at gmail.com>:
> 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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