Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 17:31 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> Le 12/06/10 14:49, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 18:36 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> >> Le 10/06/10 13:27, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> >>> On 10 June 2010 12:24, Andre Klapper<ak-47 gmx net>   wrote:
> >>>> This requires module maintainers to port their modules now (if you don't
> >>>> want an angry release-team mob soon in front of your house).
> >>>
> >>> So, should we be requesting gtk3>= 2.90 in configure.ac now? At least
> >>> for Fedora rawhide the lack of gtk-engines makes all the gtk3-using
> >>> application look fugly.
> >>
> >> To make Empathy build with gtk3 we need:
> >>
> >>    - libcanberra-gtk-3
> >>    - libchamplain-gtk-3
> >>    - libclutter-gtk-3
> >>    - libunique-3 (or drop gtk2 compatibility and use GtkApplication)
> >
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618473
> >
> > Emmanuele could do a release.
> >
> >>    - libwebkit-3
> >>
> >> Once they are all released and parallel installable (we would like to
> >> not lose gtk2 compatibility), we are ready to make the move :-)
> >
> > Why is losing GTK2 compatibility a problem? It shouldn't matter. You
> > could create a gnome-2-32 branch and make changes there if you wanted.
> 
> Ubuntu told me that Maverick (the next ubuntu release) is not going to 
> ship GTK3, and if we can't build Empathy with GTK2 then they'll just 
> keep Empathy 2.30.x... tbh I think that's a bad decision from Ubuntu, 
> but it would be really sad to not ship the latest empathy...

And you're telling me that your decision on keeping a GTK+ 2.x version
is based on one distributor's dubious decision? GNOME 3.x will be based
on GTK+ 3.x.

> But I guess if the whole GNOME 2.32 depends on GTK3 then they'll change 
> their mind.

I know that all my modules will.

Cheers