Xfce 4.14: Gtk+3 target version

[Igor Zakharov]

Hi,

I agree with the suggestion to bump the minimum GTK version to 3.22.
I think there's simply no sense in targeting 3.20 having 3.22 available.

Regards,
Igor

> I resurrect this old thread by asking to bump the minimum target version
> of Gtk+3 for Xfce 4.14 release to Gtk *3.22*
> Every major "LTS" distributions I checked already use gtk 3.22 (debian
> stretch, rhel 7.4, *BSD) and I think no xfce developper use 3.20 anymore
> so sometimes the 3.20 build fail and we don't notice it anymore…
> If you really want to keep 3.20, please advise :)
>
> Thank you,
>
> On 09/19/2016 09:59 AM, Simon Steinbeiss wrote:
>>  Eduard Roccatello <eduard at xfce.org <mailto:eduard at xfce.org>> schrieb
>>  am Mo., 19. Sep. 2016, 09:54:
>>
>>      Il 16/09/16 20:26, flo.xfce at gmx-topmail.de
>>      <mailto:flo.xfce at gmx-topmail.de> ha scritto:
>>      > I haven't followed Gtk development lately, but you said you
>>      talked to
>>      > the Gtk devs: Does 3.22 bring any new breakage or new useful
>>      features?
>>      > In [1] it is said that 3.22 is the last in the 3-series, so we will
>>      > stick to it for probably a long time. Wouldn't it be wise to
>>      just bump
>>      > the minimum version to 3.22 instead? It will still take some
>>      time until
>>      > Xfce's Gtk3 port is finished and 3.22 will be released by then.
>>      > If distros don't package Gtk 3.22 they won't package Xfce 4.14
>>      either I
>>      > guess. And as Landry has pointed out, even Debian has 3.21 in
>>      testing
>>      > already.
>>      >
>>      > [1]
>>      >
>>      https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk/
>>      >
>>      I think it would be a wise choice :)
>>
>>      er
>>
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>>  Just a brief reply as I'm on the go: yeah, we bumped it to 3.20, we
>>  might bump it further if we see fit. As you correctly said there's
>>  still time until 4.14 so also time to reconsider.
>>
>>  The important part of my previous message was about the support of
>>  <=3.18 which we decided to drop for core components.