New minimum requirement of GTK+2/GLIB for Xarchiver

[Erik Harrison]

On 8/4/06, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A few things, first there is time.
> > Then there might be some things they patched agains gtk+ 2.x, work
> > they need to redo if they upgrade to another version, and this
> > requires time.
>
> This is theory, but I am not sure how many general purpose distros are
> in this situation. Actually it is less maintenance to use a new release
> as it has better chances of getting bugfixed by upstream.
> So besides specific ones like the OS for the nokia770 I don't know
> if 2.6 is still used. I just learned that OLPC is going with 2.10 too.
>
> So people on legacy distros remain. How many of them do you think update
> to Xfce 4.4 but the rest of the system stays legacy?
>
> >
> > Dependencies, performance, memory usage. All these things do not
> > automagicly improve upstream. And, when you look at a binary
> > distribution like debian. Every package using gtk+ needs to be rebuild
> > and tested. Debian sarge supplies Gtk+-2.6, and that won't change (for
> > good reasons), you have testing/unstable for that. But until a new
> > debian version is released, users of the 'stable' release stick to
> > version 2.6.
>
> And since it's the stable debian it is likely that Xfce 4.4 won't ever
> be in it.
>
> FWIW going with Gtk 2.6 was decided last year when 2.10 was not yet out,
> the rationale being 'use the previous stable release'.
>
> I don't care much either way, just wanted to point out that precious
> developer time can be wasted to assure some theoretical portability at
> the expense of getting things done with better APIs which are used by
> the majority of users anyway.
>

While I agree with you in principle, I believe more time has been
spent discussing which version of Gtk+ to use than in working around
absent APIs

> Jani
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Erik

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