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Subject: Re: Summer of Code
From: Luke Schierer <lschiere () pidgin ! im>
Date: 2008-03-25 20:36:08
Message-ID: 47E96238.70804 () pidgin ! im
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Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:55:04 -0400, John Bailey wrote
>> Mark Doliner wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:43:01 -0400, John Bailey wrote
>>>> I'm certainly not intending to suggest we completely ignore .NET
>>>> simply because of these issues, but MFC does gain us the advantage
>>>> of working on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, and Windows ME
>>> I don't think we should worry very much about supporting operating systems
>>> that have been obsolete for over 6 years, and not supported by Microsoft for 2
>>> years.
>> By that same token, GTK+ 2.0.x was last released on 2002-11-20 and
>> has gone unsupported by its developers for quite some time. GTK+
>> 2.2.x was last released on 2003-09-04 and GTK+ 2.4.x was last
>> released on 2004-10-12. Both of these have also been unsupported by
>> the developers for quite some time. All of these GTK+ releases are
>> obsolete, yet we still support them, when supporting them gains us
>> little except more of a mess of preprocessor directives in our code
>> to disable or work around things that don't work with these older
>> GTK+ versions.
>>
>> If we're going to actively ignore supporting a product (whose
>> support would come mostly for free by using compilers that are
>> readily available, such as mingw, and not going overboard to add
>> crazy stupid stuff like the official IM clients do) simply because
>> the developers no longer support it, then we should drop support for
>> anything older than GTK+ 2.6.0 (which I have stated my desire for on
>> numerous occasions), and more likely 2.8.0.
>
> I'm in favor of dropping support for GTK+ older than 2.6.0, and more likely 2.8.0.
>
> -Mark
how old a gtk is redhat supporting? For what sort of timeline at this point?
luke
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