Re: Move to Gtk+2.16 ?

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 01:22:05PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > How do people feel about depending on Gtk+-2.16 or greater?
>      >
>      > From what I'm discovering with the GtkBuilder issues, it's going
>      > to be very hard to support both < 2.16 and >= 2.18
>      
>      Debian lenny has GTK+ 2.12, so I guess we'd have to require users
>      to upgrade at least their GTK+ packages to Debian "testing".  (Or
>      install a backport from backports.org, but I don't see one for
>      libgtk2.0-0.)
>
> I guess then the best thing to do is to move master to 2.18 and keep
> a pre-2.16 branch for a while.

That's a pain.

I'll figure out how hard it would be to build GTK+ 2.18 for
backports.org.  If it's not too hard, then we could just advise
users to update their GTK+ version.
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Ben Pfaff 
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