Re: transition plan to gtk 2.0
Definitely not; sinek and gde both required some pretty extensive
changes to function normally w/ gtk2..
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 03:37:36AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
>
> > Some random packages use gtk 2.0 now. What is the transition
> > plan to gtk 2.0? I think every library which depends on gtk
> > should be recompiled first.
>
> Uhm, gtk1 and gtk2 are not API compatible i think.
> Recompiling only solves ABI problems, not API.
> So it's not about recompiling, but it requires some major changes to the
> code i think. That's why they increased the major version number.
> It's not gtk 1.0 -> 1.0.2 or 1.0 -> 1.2 migration...
> Think of gtk2 as a new gtk design.
>
> So the transition plan is: wait for upstream to finish their gtk2 port.
> wait for them to fix all the major bugs. then build a package based upon
> gtk2.
>
> See for example gnumeric in bugtracking. Or see galeon2, which is a
> complete rewrite of galeon1.
>
> (well, i havn't done much with gtk yet, just a few experiments with
> gtk2, but i'm pretty sure that you can't just recompile a gtk1 app with
> gtk2... not even after some minor changes...)
>
> Greetings,
> Erich
>
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