Hi Ales & all, > >I have glib version 2.2.3 installed. > >Mmhh, I am not planing to update my old computer. > > Is this still an open issue? It would be shame to break > compatibility with 2.2.x over something as silly as "g_setenv".
I agree that we shouldn't break GTK-2.X compatibility; my preference is that gEDA work for gtk-2.x for x = 0 -- 4 and beyond. However, I want to offer a slightly different way of looking at this. As developers, we tend to think "we should support gtk-2.x". However, *users* tend to think "I have Red Hat 9 (or whatever), will gEDA work on my machine?" That is, maybe we could take a look at the common distributions, and select some subset of them to support. Here is a suggested list of common distributions which we could target: RH9 FC1 -- 3 (and beyond) Debian (which rev?) SuSE 9.X (X = 0, 1, 2 and beyond) Gentoo (which rev?) Have I missed any common distributions? With a set of "officially" supported distributions, we could then figure out which prerequisite packages we can write against. This would help in situations like that which we apparently have now: a patch seems to have broken gEDA for some -- but not all -- users. Just a thought . . . . Stuart
