Hi; On 1 April 2015 at 13:26, Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > On ons, 2015-04-01 at 14:24 +0200, Emmanuel Briot wrote: >> > Just for reference, we've already had this discussion various times: >> > >> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2014-December/msg00055.html >> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2013-October/msg00145.html >> >> >> Thanks for the pointers by the way. >> >> I understand now that in both threads, the proposal is to drop XP support >> for glib. >> Does this have any impact on gtk+ itself (it seems to me that none of the API >> proposed in the two links above are used by gtk+) ? >> If that's pure glib, I withdraw my comments since I only use glib through >> what >> part of it is used by gtk+. >> Other users might have different use, of course. > > Well, a future version of gtk+ may pull in a dependency on a later > version of glib (which drops XP support)for some unrelated feature. This > would then make it hard to use that version of Gtk+ on XP.
If we want to keep GTK+ 2.24 working on Windows XP regardless of GLib's own support, then we could add a version check inside GTK+, or limit the build requirements, so that application developers still targeting Windows XP can know which versions of GLib can be used to build for that platform. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
