Deprecated libraries

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>:

> Derek Atkins (warlord at MIT.EDU) said:
>> Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> writes:
>>
>> > I tried a build last night with deprecated gnome/glib/gtk/gdk/... features
>> > disabled.  I submitted a patch for one simple change.  GnomeDruid 
>> (libgnomeui)
>> > is deprecated in favor of GtkAssistant.  I logged a bug for this one.
>> > GtkTooltips is deprecated in favor of GtkTooltip.  However, there 
>> are comments
>> > in the code to the effect that some needed features aren't in Gtk 
>> (tooltip on
>> > each item of a combo box).  Others, as Derek says, are dependencies of our
>> > dependencies.
>>
>> When were these new interfaces added to Gtk?  Do we have a new minimum
>> version of Gtk?
>
> GtkAssistant is from GTK+ 2.10. GtkToolTip is GTK+ 2.12.

Thanks Bill.  It's kinda what I was afraid of.

I think I can convince myself that it's okay to require gtk-2.10.
I'm not sure about 2.12.  What version does Ubuntu 8.04 have?
I think we'd blow RHEL-5 out of the water if we increase the
gtk requirement that far, wont we?

> Bill

-derek

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