On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) said: >> >> On Dec 28, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> >>> John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) said: >>>> 2. Gtk+-3.0 is supposed to be released next month. It removes a bunch of >>>> libraries which have been deprecated for several years upon which Gnucash >>>> at present depends. All code that depends on those libraries needs to get >>>> rewritten or we're not going to be in a bunch of distros by the end of 2011 >>> >>> ? >>> >>> Gtk-2 isn't going to be removed from things like Fedora or RHEL anytime >>> sooon. Much like Qt3 has yet to go away, it's likely to live on for a >>> while, even if it's not the 'default' version of the toolkit. >> >> WTF? I said exactly that _one_sentence_later_, suggesting that we'll need to >> have >> two branches to support both the aggressive and conservative distros. > > My point is that even the aggressive distributions are going to have gtk2 > around... it's not going to disappear there. (If you want, you could compare > GnuCash's > life on GNOME 1.x, which lasted 4 years after the release of GNOME 2.0.)
I think you need to spend some time with Ubuntu. They rather enjoy pushing the envelope, and they have a lot of mindshare. Also take a look at Jeff Warnica's message earlier in this thread where he complains of the difficulty of rounding up some of Gnucash's more obsolete dependencies. That's going to get worse. I remember those 4 years. For the last two of them I had to hand build Gtk+-1 because Mandrake (now Mandriva) and Fink didn't support it. I'd call it Gnucash's time on life support rather than life on Gtk+-1. It would be a shame to repeat the (near death) experience. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel