Xfce 4.18 dependencies versions

[Alistair Buxton]

I use Ubuntu LTS so this will effectively exclude me from contributing any
patches until 2022, unless you want untested code.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 18:45, <andre at andreldm.com> wrote:

> Hi Romain,
> I agree with you and Alex, current "stable" distros should stick to 4.16,
> their next versions should target 4.18 if we don't delay it too much. I
> can't stress this enough: who wants bleeding edge packages, should use a
> bleeding edge distro, simple like that.
>
> Cheers,
> Andre Miranda
>
> Jul 28, 2021, 19:24 by acs82 at gmx.de:
>
> Hi Romain,
>
> thanks for bringing this up !
>
> +1 for gtk >= 3.24 / glib >= 2.66  from my side. (Even though currently
> I dont have a usecase)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
>
> Am 25.07.21 um 19:28 schrieb Romain Bouvier:
>
> Hi :)
>
> 4.18 development cycle is already started (
> https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.18/roadmap), we've seen tons of commits in
> thunar and some core components (GSoC 2021 effect), but we haven't
> discussed yet the lib/dependencies requirements.
>
> One question is : do we want to be able to compile Xfce 4.18 (which is far
> from being released) on Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) and CentOS/RockyLinux 8 (this
> one might be problematic because it only have gtk 3.22 and glib2 2.56). My
> opinion is : we can ignore them.
>
> What I propose, if we are ok to not "support" Ubuntu 20.04 / CentoS 8 (by
> the time we release 4.18, maybe Ubuntu 22.04 (next lts) will be already
> released btw).
>
> - gtk >= 3.24, so we can ditch tons of "#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION" macros in
> core
> - glib-2.0 >= 2.66 (note: ubuntu 20.04 (lts) only have 2.64)
> Same version for gmodule-2.0, gobject-2.0, gthread-2.0, gio-2.0 and gdbus
> - libcairo >= 1.16
> - gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.40
>
>
> Romain,
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