I fully support this. Anyone who is on a system with dependencies that old should be looking to the LTS group, not our newest releases.
Jay On Jul 12, 2016 10:50 AM, "Eric Williams" <[email protected]> wrote: On 12/07/16 10:13 AM, Mike Wilson wrote: > Given the above issues, plus the small number of active SWT committers, > and the comparatively very limited consumption of the Unix versions of > Eclipse, /we believe that starting with the Eclipse Oxygen release, it > is time to drop support for Eclipse on Unix/ in particular, and move to > > a model where SWT/GTK supports only a limited range of recent GTK versions. > I absolutely support this approach. Even in GTK3, the difference between GTK3.8 and GTK3.20 is night and day. This is definitely a step in the right direction. Eric With that said, the community ultimately gets to decide: If there is > enough interest in continuing to support Eclipse on Unix, people > interested in those platforms will have to work with the respective > vendors to ensure that binaries get built and tested, and that a > compatible GTK is available (perhaps by getting the operating system > libraries updated to the required level, or alternatively by creating > (and maintaining) a separate SWT port that is compatible only with the > old GTK versions). Ideally, the Unix vendors should engage with the > community and provide binaries, build machines and testing if they are > interested in keeping Eclipse working on their operating system. > > The Eclipse Project PMC > > > > _______________________________________________ > eclipse-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-dev > > _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list [email protected] To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
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