Re: [sweep-devel] gtk2 minimum version

[Conrad P. <co...@me...>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:35:05PM +1000, Conrad Parker wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> the gtk2 port in http://svn.metadecks.org/sweep/trunk is coming along really
> well :)
> 
> On a fresh checkout on a debian testing box, I get the following:
> 
> view.o(.text+0xa866): In function `view_new':
> /home/conrad/src/metadecks.org/sweep/src/view.c:2767: undefined reference to `gtk_label_set_width_chars'
> 
> A bit of googling reveals that this function is new in gtk+-2.6, whereas
> I have gtk+-2.4.13. Sweep's configure.ac simply checks for gtk > 2.0.
> 
> So, I guess we should pick a minimum gtk2 version and demand it :-) Does
> anyone have any suggestions for what minimum version should be supported?
> Generally I prefer to depend only on stuff that has been shipping in distros
> for 12 months or so, to minimize pain (hence some of the detailed function
> call checks in configure.ac).
I just had a chat with Jeff Waugh (jdub), who's been release manager of
Gnome for the past few years:

<kfish> jdub! what minimum gtk2 version should an app depend on to reliably build on existing installed systems?
<jdub> kfish: um
<jdub> kfish: it's fairly likely that you'll be stuck with 2.2
<kfish> ah ok ... let's see, that'd be released about 2 years ago?
<jdub> roughly
<jdub> i think that's what's in rhel
...
<jdub> yeah, 2.2.4 is in rhel3
<jdub> 2.x isn't in rhel2
<kfish> jdub: ok, thanks :)