Hi Arnd On 2013-02-27 08:59, Arnd <ttaapp gmail com> wrote:
Nice work! I've got a question about the following: David King <amigadave amigadave com> [Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:58:38 +0000]* Port to and require the most recent GTK+ 2 release (2.24)I maintain a few machines with older distributions. Unfortunately, the new GTK requirement breaks compiling on them. Was it really necessary (in terms of features) to use the latest GTK version? Is there a trick to compile against older versions (ET-2.1.7 compiled without problems against 2.14.x)?
It was not absolutely necessary, but it made the GTK+ 3 port easier, with only a thin compatibility wrapper and almost no ifdefs outside the wrapper. There are numerous bits of API that were added in response to "sealing" the GTK+ structures, which occurred in various releases from 2.16 to 2.24. While with a more invasive set of ifdefs and compatibility wrappers it would be possible to avoid some (or maybe all) of the post-2.14 API, it is not something that I would find particularly easy to test on a regular basis.
If you or someone else would come up with a patch that made it possible to build EasyTAG against an older version, which did not add ifdefs outside the compatibility wrapper, I might merge it, but I think that instead it would be better to look forward to a post-2.1.9 release, which would likely depend on GTK+ 3 and drop support for GTK+ 2 entirely.
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