Message-ID: <3E59EE5D.2000600 at lix.polytechnique.fr>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:05:17 +0100
From: Benjamin Monate <monate at lix.polytechnique.fr>
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To: Sven Luther <luther at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: New snapshot available
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Sven Luther wrote:

>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.
>>    
>>

Upgrading is not possible for many people.
I suggest that we keep to support modified and new features of Gtk2.2  and
fail with exceptions with old Gtk 2.
This is not so much work.
When all stable distros will embed Gtk2.2 we may forget Gtk2.0 but not 
before.
At this time debian stable does not have Gtk2.2 packages.
Cheers
Benjamin