Hi, Le dimanche 27 août 2006 à 13:38 +0200, Joerg Mayer a écrit : > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 06:17:28PM +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > > I have however to disagree on dropping support for GTK version 1.2. I > > currently build wireshark on MacOS X wiht GTK 1.2 for a good reason. > > The dependencies of GTK is GLIB and nothing else. If you build it > > with GTK2, then you end up with a few of dependencies which have > > another large list of dependencies you have to build in addition. I > > once tried and stopped after I compiled and patched like the 10ths > > dependency. Things like ghostscript, cario, and a lot of other things > > you never ever need in Wireshark. And when I build a binary, then all > > the end users get a lot of files for nothing. This is very different > > to other OS's which use this stuff to run their GUI in their X11 > > environment. this is not the case under MacOS X. > > Well, I'm very much for dropping GTK-1 support: > > Look at the source in gtk/ to see the effort it takes to take all the > differences between gtk1 and gtk2 into account as well as the effort > to maintain both versions. Compare this with the one-time-effort to > set up a working compile time env for gtk2 for fink. > > Or would you be willing to maintain the gtk1 code in the Wireshark > sources to keep them functional? If no one steps up and offers to > maintain the gtk1 code we very likely will remove it in the not too far > future. Guess I can do it, I need gtk1, gtk2 is way too slow and all my changes are for gtk1 so I will have a working gtk1 backport anyway. I can't guarantee a daily update but a monthly one is doable. Could put speed changes in a separate branch too.
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