Re: Versions and releases

On 26.10.2011 11:55, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> 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

Is it correct to assume that a Gnome 3-based distribution will be based
on GTK3?
Xfce will remain GTK2 until after the 4.10 series
(http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap#dependencies_fixed_after_2011-01-25).
Also, we must assume that for quite some time, there will be a
transition where a GTK2-based distribution will use GTK3-based apps and
pull them in as additional deps, and vice versa. Not sure how it will
affect Windows users, though.
-mjjzf
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Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
http://syntaktisk.dk * mjjzf_at_syntaktisk.dk
Received on Wed Oct 26 12:07:58 2011