Looks like debian (lenny)is at 2.12.12, so that shouldn't hold us up this time.
Tim On 07/29/2009 09:44 PM, Scofield, Tim wrote: > 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/
