Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-05 Thread Alexander Eberspächer
On 10/04/2011 07:12 PM, Matthew Brush wrote: Yeah, 2.18 seems to be about right all things considered. Can someone explain (in one or two sentences) why GTK versions around 2.18 or so are much worse than more recent ones? I haven't really done anything using GTK yet, however, I am

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Brush
On 11-10-05 12:15 AM, Alexander Eberspächer wrote: On 10/04/2011 07:12 PM, Matthew Brush wrote: Yeah, 2.18 seems to be about right all things considered. Can someone explain (in one or two sentences) why GTK versions around 2.18 or so are much worse than more recent ones? I haven't really

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-05 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 05/10/2011 09:30, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi Alex, There is no problem (that I'm aware of) with any versions on Linux, except of course new features were added over time. Since everyone wants to use the shiny new things, they want a newer version. Also as newer features replaced older

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-05 Thread Lex Trotman
On 6 October 2011 09:58, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 05/10/2011 09:30, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi Alex, There is no problem (that I'm aware of) with any versions on Linux, except of course new features were added over time.  Since everyone wants to use the shiny new

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-04 Thread Alexander Eberspächer
On 26 September 2011 10:21, Matthew Brush mbr...@codebrainz.ca wrote: So I was just curious *specifically* what distro(s) and version(s) sets the oldest version of GTK+ that Geany should support? I think RHEL in a more or less current version sets a reasonable benchmark. We have used RHEL 5

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-04 Thread Alexander Eberspächer
On 1 October 2011 13:44, Matthew Brush mbr...@codebrainz.ca wrote: It seems to me like this group of users would be very small and require that they are:  - Enterprise/LTS users running a GUI  - And who are willing to install unsupported software. That may be the case more often than one

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-04 Thread Matthew Brush
On 11-10-04 05:36 AM, Alexander Eberspächer wrote: On 1 October 2011 13:44, Matthew Brushmbr...@codebrainz.ca wrote: It seems to me like this group of users would be very small and require that they are: - Enterprise/LTS users running a GUI - And who are willing to install unsupported

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-02 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:44:06 -0700, Matthew wrote: On 11-10-01 03:05 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:21:59 -0700, Matthew wrote: So I was just curious *specifically* what distro(s) and version(s) sets the oldest version of GTK+ that Geany should support? I don't know

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-02 Thread Jiří Techet
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 13:44, Matthew Brush mbr...@codebrainz.ca wrote: On 11-10-01 03:05 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:21:59 -0700, Matthew wrote: So I was just curious *specifically* what distro(s) and version(s) sets the oldest version of GTK+ that Geany should support?

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-02 Thread Lex Trotman
To summarise, everyone appears to be in furious agreement :) Now 0.21 is out, Matthew, whats the oldest version where all the things used in the current Geany are supported, 2.16 or 2.18. And can you and Nick test with windows to decide which version we package with Geany. I don't have a full

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-01 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:21:59 -0700, Matthew wrote: Hi, Is there some specific distro or platform that sets the oldest GTK+ version Geany needs to support? I had a conversation with Enrico on IRC some time back and he explained that Geany supports older GTK+ versions so that enterprise and

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-10-01 Thread Lex Trotman
2011/10/1 Enrico Tröger enrico.troe...@uvena.de: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:21:59 -0700, Matthew wrote: Hi, Is there some specific distro or platform that sets the oldest GTK+ version Geany needs to support?  I had a conversation with Enrico on IRC some time back and he explained that Geany

[Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-09-26 Thread Matthew Brush
Hi, Is there some specific distro or platform that sets the oldest GTK+ version Geany needs to support? I had a conversation with Enrico on IRC some time back and he explained that Geany supports older GTK+ versions so that enterprise and similar distros which have really old packages are

Re: [Geany-devel] Question about GTK+ version used

2011-09-26 Thread Lex Trotman
On 26 September 2011 18:21, Matthew Brush mbr...@codebrainz.ca wrote: Hi, Is there some specific distro or platform that sets the oldest GTK+ version Geany needs to support?  I had a conversation with Enrico on IRC some time back and he explained that Geany supports older GTK+ versions so