On 07/29/2009 05:07 AM, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > While adding few more tooltips I found that the old GTK+ tooltips API is > deprecated. > > Is it acceptable to upgrade to API that requires GTK+ >= 2.12.0 released > in 2007? (Current viking requirement is GTK+ >= 2.8.0, but for example > gimp-2.6 requires GTK+ >= 2.12.5.) > > In this particular case, it is easy to use the deprecated API to stay > compatible with GTK+ < 2.12.0. > > [1] > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2826645&group_id=83870&atid=570956 > > I'm fine with it. The last time this came up (Dec 2007) we were trying to move to 2.10 in order to enable better printing support, but If I recall correctly, debian wasn't using 2.10 yet, even though it had been out for a while.
Right now CentOS 5 is using gtk2-2.10.4-20.el5.src.rpm <http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.3/os/SRPMS/gtk2-2.10.4-20.el5.src.rpm> . Not sure what debian is at. Suse 11 (probably approaching EOL) is at 2.12.9, and Ubuntu is at 2.16.1 Even if we don't move to 2.12, let's at least move to 2.10. Tim P.S. Here's the excerpt from one of my messages to the mailing list on 06Dec2007: > On 12/06/2007 02:24 AM, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I agree that it's really hard to restrict viking to a Gtk as old as 2.8. >> > But, Debian stable seems to be based on such version. Furthermore, it >> > seems that some of our users have this version installed. >> > >> > So, we have to decide two things (IMHO): >> > - the actual Gtk version requirement >> > - a non ambiguous rule to update the Gtk version requirement >> > >> > I suggest to solve the first question via a "survey": we request our >> > users to report about their configuration (distribution, versions...). >> > We can modify the ./configure in order to list all the requested info, >> > so people only need to copy/paste these info in a mail. Eventually, >> > some free web service can help us doing this, but I don't know about >> > such services. >> > >> > I'm running a fairly recent version of OpenSuSE - gtk 2.10.6 (patched) > > I took the time to look up some information on other linux OS's and gtk2. > > Cent OS 4 (Gtk 2.4 ) 15Feb2005 (another fairly stable distribution with > a long life. I don't run it) > Gtk 2.10(.0) was released on 03Jul2006 > CentOS 5 (Gtk 2.10.4) 14Mar2007 (I don't run this either) > Fedora 7 (Gtk 2.10.11) late May2007 (updated to 2.10.14 on 31Jul2007) (a > relatively bleeding and occasionally breaking edge distro) > Gtk 2.10.16 (the most recent 2.10) was released on 16Jul2007 > Debian Etch was released 15Aug2007 (I haven't tried it) > Gtk 2.12(.0) was released on 14Sep2007 > Gtk 2.12.3 was released on 05Dec2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
