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" 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
>
>
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