Ar 05/02/2005 am 16:28, ysgrifennodd Robert McQueen: > Anand Kumria wrote: > There aren't that many incompatible source code changes that I'm aware > of - some widgets may be deprecated but will still exist in the new GTK+ > versions. Gaim is buildable still with any version of Gtk+ from 2.0 > onwards, and I think 2.6 is the first release where ifdefs have moved > from the sense of "make use of improved features where available" to a > "the old way of doing this is deprecated".
GTK+ has a lovely cast-iron backwards compatibility guarantee, for both teh API and the ABI. Anything that compiles with 2.0 should compile with 2.n. I think this is also true for the rest of the GNOME 2 platform, or at least those bits which existed when GNOME 2.0 was released. However, some packages compile with -DDISABLE_DEPRACATED, which breaks things when a new GTK+ release depracates parts of the API. This certainly happened with the 2.2 -> 2.4 transition. However, this sort of problem is very easily dealt with. -- Dafydd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
