Xfce 4.10 entering planning phase

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:48:56 +0100
Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez
> <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> > On mar., 2011-01-25 at 10:23 +0100, Nick Schermer wrote:
> >> > As far as I know, we'll start shipping GTK3 in Wheezy (next
> >> > stable after Squeeze) and stop shipping GTK2 when nobody depends
> >> > on it (so in 10-15 years maybe? :). So I'd say it's safe to use
> >> > GTK2 for now and wait a bit for GTK3 stabilisation.
> >>
> >> But no idea which version of gtk2 will most likely appear in
> >>  Wheezy? And what about Squeeze? That release will be most-used in
> >> the next 2 years, would be nice if we support that regarding
> >> testing. That said; I don't know of any API that we 'need' after
> >> 2.14. Jannis do you have any special requirements.
> >
> > Squeeze will have Glib 2.24.2 and GTK+ 2.20.1. Wheezy should have at
> > least GTK+ 2.24 and maybe 2.26.
> 
> Well then I'd say we go with the following:
> 
> Gtk 2.20 (in squeeze, released in may 2010, will be ~2 years old when
> 4.10 hits the streets)
> Glib 2.24 (same as above)
> Cairo 1.6 (Gtk 2.20 dep)
> Wnck 2.30, doesn't matter only translation updates since 2.22 (2.30 is
> releases at same time as Gtk 2.20 and in squeeze).
> Dbus-glib 0.84 (Glib 2.26 has GDBus tho, but that's too new. 0.84 is
> released in same period as Gtk 2.20, squeeze has 0.88, quite a bunch
> of bugfixes since 0.72 which was the 4.8 dep).
> 
> Anyone against this?

No, I think that is a sane choice. I have to admit however that I don't
really recall what in 2.24 and 2.26 we could benefit from, so maybe
there's stuff in 2.26 that would be really, really useful. But I doubt
there's anything we can't live without.

So, fine with me.

  - Jannis