Re: gtk3-3.5.2-1 ???
On 06/08/2012 12:44 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, what do you mean by 'use it', exactly? F17 has GTK+ 3.4. 3.5 is a new major version - it's not API/ABI compatible. If you were going to backport it to F17 you'd have to either install it alongside 3.4 - in which case you would not, in practice, be 'using it', it'd just be sitting there - or recompile all (or at least some) of the GTK+ apps you run against 3.5. That's a major undertaking and would leave you with a system that was rather diverged from F17. Not true. GTK+ 3.5 is API/ABI compatible with earlier GTK+ 3.x releases. This means that an app compiled with GTK+ 3.0 or 3.2 or 3.4 will continue to work with GTK+ 3.5. Barring any bugs, of course. Also, GTK+ 3.x releases are not parallel installable, so installing the gtk3-3.5.2 package would replace the gtk3-3.4.3 package that's in F17. -- Kalev -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: gtk3-3.5.2-1 ???
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 01:55 +0300, Kalev Lember wrote: On 06/08/2012 12:44 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, what do you mean by 'use it', exactly? F17 has GTK+ 3.4. 3.5 is a new major version - it's not API/ABI compatible. If you were going to backport it to F17 you'd have to either install it alongside 3.4 - in which case you would not, in practice, be 'using it', it'd just be sitting there - or recompile all (or at least some) of the GTK+ apps you run against 3.5. That's a major undertaking and would leave you with a system that was rather diverged from F17. Not true. GTK+ 3.5 is API/ABI compatible with earlier GTK+ 3.x releases. This means that an app compiled with GTK+ 3.0 or 3.2 or 3.4 will continue to work with GTK+ 3.5. Barring any bugs, of course. Also, GTK+ 3.x releases are not parallel installable, so installing the gtk3-3.5.2 package would replace the gtk3-3.4.3 package that's in F17. Sorry, my bad. I assumed there was a bump, I should've checked. It still doesn't sound like a terribly good idea, though. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: gtk3-3.5.2-1.fc18?
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 23:12 -0700, Rob Healey wrote: Greetings: Would it a bad idea, to download this and re-compile it for fc17??? Um. Probably, yes. Why would you want to do that? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: gtk3-3.5.2-1 ???
Rob Healey wrote: The only reason why, would be to use it now rather than having to wait for FC18 to stabilize a little more first. If this is such a bad idea, then I will wait for rawhide? GTK 3.5 is an unstable branch. There's a reason why the package maintainer does what he does. I would recommend that you stick with the F17 packages unless you have a legitimate reason (and judging from your two e-mails you do not) not to. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
