I think most of us have recent copies... we've adopted the
system of using the most recent stable release of GTK for
AbiWord... that would be 1.2.3 right now, I think.
The problem this poses is that we have been building our
packages with requirements of 1.2.1 or 1.2.2, since up until now
our builds have worked with them. If we're using features not
found in older versions we should take a good look at what version
we should be requiring.
This isn't such a problem until you go looking for native
package builds of GTK for older distributions. For example,
we have (at http://www.abisource.com/downloads/libraries)
libpng, zlib, GTK and GLIB builds for Red Hat 5 and 6 Alpha
and Intel, and Debian Slink and Potato Alpha and Intel. It's
hard finding those packages for distributions that weren't around
4 months ago.
-- Shaw Terwilliger