Hi Patrick, I have't gotten any responses from others. I did spend about 5 minutes looking on the web to see what levels of GTK RedHat put into RH9. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any specs. I also looked at Gentoo, but couldn't find anything there either. I do know that SuSE publishes their specs. Bravo SuSE!
Anyway, getting some hard data on this will involve more work. I will do it myself -- if I have to -- by loading various distributions onto some of my collection of old, junk computers and just looking at the versions in the .h files. This, however, will take some time & I am working on a different projet right now. Perhaps in one or two weeks. This leads into another one of my ideas: Any sufficiently complicated software system targeted for Linux must have all kinds of compatibility issues like we are expereincing now with GTK-2.4. There is probably a need for a "Linux Compatibility Labs" which basically has a room full of computers runing different stock distributions. One could then contract to this organization to verify that any particular piece of software will compile and run on any and all distributions specified. A "Linux Compatibility Labs" certificate could then be issued for the project. (Perhaps such an orgainzation already exists? Does the OSDL do anything like this?) Ales does some compatibility testing, but I don't know exactly which distributions he tries. I can set up a variety of machines at my house to do this, but then I won't have a dining room. :-( Nonetheless, I might do it for the next release of gEDA. Finally, thanks for all the hard work on moving things to GTK/GLib. However, you mentioned in another e-mail that you are targeting GTK-2.4. Is it possible to target GTK-2.[02] instead? What are the salient differences between 2.4 and 2.X where X < 4? Stuart > > Hi Stuart, > > Stuart Brorson writes: > > [...] > > As developers, we tend to think "we should support gtk-2.x". However, > > *users* tend to think "I have Red Hat 9 (or whatever), will gEDA work > > on my machine?" That is, maybe we could take a look at the common > > distributions, and select some subset of them to support. Here is a > > suggested list of common distributions which we could target: > > > > RH9 > > FC1 -- 3 (and beyond) > > Debian (which rev?) > > SuSE 9.X (X = 0, 1, 2 and beyond) > > Gentoo (which rev?) > > Have you had any answer on what version of GLib/GTK these > common distributions install? > > > Patrick > >
