[xmlroff] Which GLib version?

[Tony G. <Ton...@Me...>]

Satoru SATOH has submitted a patch[1] for xmlroff to use GLib's
GOption facility instead of popt, but it would require a newer version
of GLib.

xmlroff currently only requires GLib 2.4[2], which was released in
March 2004.

GOption first appeared with GLib 2.6[3] from December 2004.

The opportunity exists to be positively hasty and require one of GLib
2.8[4] from August 2005, GLib 2.10[5] from February 2006, or GLib
2.12[6] from July 2006.

While I am currently building with GLib 2.12, I am happy to not
require the newest versions of libraries in case other people are
using older versions.

I propose to require GLib 2.6 and also Pango 1.10, which was the first
Pango version to require Cairo and which requires GLib 2.6.

The likely result of all that is that the Cairo backend would become
the default backend for xmlroff.

Comments?

Regards,


Tony.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=536899&aid=1687861&group_id=73148
[2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2004-March/msg00178.html
[3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-December/msg00038.html
[4] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2005-August/msg00048.html
[5] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-February/msg00165.html
[6] http://www.gtk.org/glib-2.12-announcement.html