Deprecated libraries

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

[snip]
> What's the state of these libraries in GnuCash ? If I run an ldd on the 2.3.5 
> binary, it still links to most of these libraries.

Many of these libraries are used indirectly (e.g., they are dependencies
of our dependencies).  However I know the register DOES use the gnome
canvas.  Which means the Register Rewrite branch needs to complete
before this move can finish.

> I'm just thinking out loud here. Gnome 2.30 or 2.32 will become Gnome 3.0 
> according to the release notes. This means Gnome 3.0 will hit some major 
> distributions in about 1 year. So in about 1 year there will be gnome 
> installations that no longer carry these deprecated libraries, and hence break 
> GnuCash as it is now.
>
> GnuCash in working towards a new major release (2.4). Personally, I don't 
> expect GnuCash to do another major release in a one year timeframe. And I 
> assume a minor release is not the proper place to go on changing library 
> dependencies.
>
> So I was wondering, is the 2.4 release not the best time to remove GnuCash' 
> dependency on these deprecated libraries ?

I don't think we should worry about this for 2.4.  HOWEVER I do think
that AFTER 2.4 we should try to finish the register rewrite and perform
a gnome-3 migration for a future GnuCash 2.6 or 3.0.

> Geert

-derek

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