Re: Versions and releases

Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 10:15 +0200, Ingo Brückl a écrit :
> Jean Brefort wrote on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:01:39 +0200:
>
> > Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 02:28 +0200, J.M. Maurer a écrit :
> >> On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 02:11 +0200, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> >> > J.M. Maurer wrote on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:49:27 +0200:
> >> >
> >> > > So with some luck, AbiWord 3.0 will support GTK 3.0!
> >> >
> >> > But hopefully run with GTK 2.x as well?
> >>
> >> Good question.
> >>
> >> @Jean: how did you implement this?
>
> > It was the idea at first but it proved much difficult, so no support of
> > gtk 2.x in my branch. I don't remember what was the main issue with it
> > though.
>
> I appreciate your work on porting AbiWord to GTK 3.0, but I don't think that
> it is a good idea to cut support for GTK 2.x. I mean, it runs fine with GTK
> 2.x. There probably isn't much we'd really *need* from GTK 3.0, it probably
> is more about that GTK 3.0 *differs* in some aspects.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to enclose your patches with GTK_CHECK_VERSION()
> checks?

No, really too much work, and, worse, we would need two versions of the
ui files. Gtk2 and 3 are just not compatible.

Regards,
Jean
Received on Tue Oct 25 10:47:56 2011