Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
Hi,
The previous message thread on this topic some weeks ago had lots of
noise and no clear answer. Though I think it did raise some awareness
to the problem.
Recently I have seen many Mantis reports regarding GTK1 marked as
resolved (about 3-5 of mine in the last 7 days) without actually
fixing those bugs. Many of them were closed with comments goes
something like this: GTK1 cannot compile anymore and has been marked
deprecated.
We try to fix compilation bugs as soon as possible.
It has been suspended, meaning patches are welcome, but the current Lazarus
developers won't spend time on fixing gtk1 bugs.
> Well, if it cannot compile, then why not simply remove the
GTK1 option from the IDE wigetset list - it is clearly not being
maintained any more and is broken more often than not.
Some people still want to use it and we accept patches for it.
For those die-hard developers that must continue to use GTK1 -
continue using 0.9.28.3 until you can upgrade to GTK2. Life evolves,
so should your project. But it's rather pointless having a widgetset
marked "deprecated" (already a good starting point) in the widgetset
list, when it fact it cannot even be compiled any more.
Why deprive those people of using 0.9.29? We don't break it intentionally, like we
don't break win98 support intentionally.
I vote to simply remove it completely from the widgetset list. No
point in having something marked "deprecated" in Beta software either.
I think the Lazarus project is the first to ever do this (at least
from all project I have ever seen). :-)
Against.
Vincent
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