Re: GTK patch - only for GTK >= version 2? (and hence GNOME 2)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:40:23 +0100
> From: "Jan D." <address@hidden>
> >
> > I have successfully built a version of Emacs CVS w/ GTK patch under
> > Red Hat 8.0 (which ships with GTK+/GNOME 2 as standard), but was
> > trying to build the same version under Slackware 8.1 which ships with
> > GTK+ 1.2.10 and it fails (presumably due to the GTK+ version).
> 
> Yes, this is by design.  The main reason is that the event strategy used
> for Emacs and GTK won't work with GTK 1.2 (or rather Glib 1.2).  Other
> reasons are that a lot of stuff that are in 1.2 has been replaced with
> new things in 2.0 (like moving all event-signals to glib) and the old 1.2
> things are depreceated in 2.0.  So in order to be more "future proof",
> I started with for 2.0.

IMHO, this should probably be mentioned in INSTALL (if it isn't
already).