Gtk Base Version for Gnucash-2.6

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> writes:

> I'm going to see if I can build an updated webkit binary for win32 soon.
> Unfortunately, it's a bit of an adventure.  It is made easier if I use
> the right fedora vm with mingw-gnome packages for most/all of the
> dependencies.
>
> Phil
>
> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 22:2010-12-3000 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2010 schrieb John Ralls:
>> > RHEL-6 is out and has Gtk+-2.18, as does openSuse 11.2. It's available as
>> > an update for Debian Stable (Lenny), and Debian Testing (Squeeze) is using
>> > 2.20.1.
>> > 
>> > Looks like 2.18 should be the minimum for Gnucash 2.6.
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> Except we have to work at our windows port, which currently is built with 
>> gtk-2.16: The windows binary ships with a pre-built webkit binary (that is 
>> downloaded from gnucash's download section at sourceforge), but that one was 
>> built against gtk-2.16. Hence,someone (heh) must build a webkit against 
>> gtk-2.20 and then we can switch the windows build to gtk-2.20 as well. I 
>> already did that but had to revert due to the incompatible webkit binary, see 
>> r19641.

I'm fine with moving to Gtk2.18 for GNC-2.6.

Phil, what version do you need?  Is there any reason we can't just use
Fedora 14's mingw32-webkitgtk-1.3.6-2.fc14.noarch.rpm?  (Note that F14
has gtk-2.22).

If you need access to a Fedora VM for this I can set one up for you.

-derek

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