Re: Versions and releases

Things should work now using the --with-gtk2 configure option.

Cheers,
Jean

Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 10:47 +0200, Jean Brefort a écrit :
> 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 Mon Oct 31 09:01:28 2011