Deprecated libraries

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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?
>
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS comes with 2.12.x, so it's more recent than RedHat.

Geert