glib/gtk minimum required versions

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Sun Dec 18 11:05:07 CET 2005


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>Is the version requirement on glib/gtk planned to be tightened for 4.4?
>>The minimum version for Xfce 4.4 will be gtk+-2.6 and glib 2.6.
> Really?  I thought we decided on 2.4. 

Yes, that's correct, but IIRC, several voices raised against targeting 
2.4 and the fact is now quite a few packages won't build on gtk < 2.6. I 
had to make the switch to be able to build SVN trunk.

If it's worth the effort, I can try to list the offending packages...

Cheers,
Olivier.




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