Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:12:26 +0100
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: andrieu at ijm.jussieu.fr, lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: New snapshot available
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From: Sven Luther <luther at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:48:18AM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> From: Benjamin Monate <benjamin.monate@lix.polytechnique.fr>
> > Yes. lablgtk2 main target is Gtk 2.2.
> > But it should compile with Gtk 2.x , x < 2.
> > Application developped for Gtk 2.2 will compile with
> > Gtk 2.x but they may fail with Failure "Unsupported feature in Gtk 2.x < 
> > 2.2" exceptions.
> 
> I've fixed ml_gdk.c a bit better, so that you can still get screen
> size with gtk-2.0.
> 
> But compatibility is indeed a problem.
> I'm wondering whether gtk-2.0 is a worthy target: this kind of problem
> is cropping-up all around, and there is no support in gtk-2.2 to
> produce gtk-2.0 compatible programs.
> 
> How do people value gtk-2.0 compatibility?
> For personal use, I would suggest to upgrade to 2.2 anyway, but I know
> that some people intend to distribute software to non-experts, and I
> have no idea for how long 2.0 will still be around.

gtk+ 2.0 is obsoleted by gtk+ 2.2, which is API compatible with 2.0.

All 2.0 programs should be able to run with 2.2 without problems. In
debian unstable we had 2.2 package well before the 2.2 gnome was ready,
and it ran without much problem. I think 2.0 lacked some maturity in
many points, and everyone should be upgrading to 2.2 quicly, at least
that seems to be the intention of the gtk developpment team. Also there
will be no further developpment, bugfix or whatever fro gtk 2.0. All the
work will be going into gtk 2.2, so i question the wisdom of keeping 2.0
installed, which may in the future contain untended security issues or
whatever.

So, my vote would strongly be to release lablgtk2 for gtk+ 2.2. It makes
no sense anyway to release beta bindings for a version who is one year
old.

Friendly,

Sven Luther