Re: Versions and releases

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Wed Oct 26 2011 - 11:55:33 CEST

On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 23:13 -0700, Hub Figuière wrote:
> On 11-10-25 1:15 AM, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Gtk3 is parallel installable with Gtk2. What's the problem with going
> forward?

It could be a problem for GTK2-only distributions. On the other hand,
GTK3 is not *that* new, and by the time AbiWord 3.0 comes out, it will
be even older.

I'm inclined to go for it, but maybe I'm underestimating the problems
people might have getting their hands on a GTK3 distro.

Cheers!
  Marc
Received on Wed Oct 26 11:53:03 2011

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