Re: [Gramps-devel] GUI crash, today's github

[Nick H. <ni...@gr...>]

On 28/07/15 19:30, Paul Franklin wrote:
> However, speaking more generally, ISTM you are now
> implying that the only people who will be able to run
> gramps 4.2.0 are people who run the latest version of
> their (linux) operating system.

No.  Users should be able to run Gramps on all supported releases of the 
most popular distributions where practical.  This is why we chose 3.10 
as the minimum Gtk requirement.


> I would argue that has never been our philosophy and
> should not be now either.  Fedora 20 was released only
> a year ago.  It's not an old release at all.

Fedora 20 is no longer supported.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases#Old_Unsupported_Releases


>
> I would argue instead we need to revert any 3.12 code
> (or assumptions or deprecations or whatever -- I am not
> a GUI person), or modify them so they work, like we did
> with the old "from __future__ import xyz" lines (yes, I
> know it's not exactly the same, but you understand).

Did upgrading pygobject to 3.12 solve your problem?


Nick.