On K, 2015-04-01 at 14:33 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On ons, 2015-04-01 at 13:31 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > Hi; > > > > On 1 April 2015 at 13:26, Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On ons, 2015-04-01 at 14:24 +0200, Emmanuel Briot wrote: > > >> > Just for reference, we've already had this discussion various times: > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2014-December/msg00055.html > > >> > > > >> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2013-October/msg00145.html > > >> > > >> > > >> Thanks for the pointers by the way. > > >> > > >> I understand now that in both threads, the proposal is to drop XP > > >> support for glib. > > >> Does this have any impact on gtk+ itself (it seems to me that none of > > >> the API > > >> proposed in the two links above are used by gtk+) ? > > >> If that's pure glib, I withdraw my comments since I only use glib > > >> through what > > >> part of it is used by gtk+. > > >> Other users might have different use, of course. > > > > > > Well, a future version of gtk+ may pull in a dependency on a later > > > version of glib (which drops XP support)for some unrelated feature. This > > > would then make it hard to use that version of Gtk+ on XP. > > > > If we want to keep GTK+ 2.24 working on Windows XP regardless of > > GLib's own support, then we could add a version check inside GTK+, or > > limit the build requirements, so that application developers still > > targeting Windows XP can know which versions of GLib can be used to > > build for that platform. > > I don't see the point though. If you're on gtk2, just use an older glib. > The main reason to use a new glib is to be able to use a more recent > gtk3 that depends on it.
If gtk2 stops working with a newer glib2, we've seriously failed with it's supposed ABI guarantees. Personally I am concerned about that throughout the stack in order to not scare away a developer ecosystem, not GTK+ working on XP. Mart _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
