Deprecated libraries

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>:

> Derek Atkins (warlord at MIT.EDU) said:
>> >>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?
>
> RHEL 5 ships gtk-2.10.x, yes.

Answering my own question, ub8.04 has 2.12, but I don't think we should
ignore el5..  So like I said I'm happy to drop everything pre-el5 and
increase our gtk requirement to 2.10, but I think 2.12 is too new.

So Phil, that means we cannot use GtkToolTip and have to continue using
the old GtkTooltips...   Unless you want to copy the new API into a
compatibility library like we did for lib/glib28 etc?  But minimum
requirement should be gtk-2.10.

Thanks,

> Bill

-derek

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