Re: Versions and releases

Le mercredi 26 octobre 2011 à 12:07 +0200, Morten Juhl-Johansen
Zölde-Fejér a écrit :
> 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.

Windows build does not use Gtk at all, so no change there, neither in
the cocoa version.

Regards,
Jean
Received on Wed Oct 26 13:08:58 2011