Re: [Evolution-hackers] What GLib and GTK+ versions do we support?

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 21:09 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
> 'Whatever GNOME 2.16 supports' was my top-of-the-head answer, assuming
> few (if any) users might want to update to the latest Evolution
> stand-alone keeping their GNOME desktops intact. This was my thinking
> when I approved the patches.
> 
> On second thoughts, there are users who use Evolution (for
> Exchange/GroupWise connectivity) but run on a KDE desktop and it is not
> all fun for them to update glib and above.
> I feel it is more prudent to make the patch use g_slice features if a
> supported version was available but falls back to the old implementation
> otherwise.
> 
> This adds to the maintenance foo but gets us a few more happy users.
> 
> Any thoughts, others ?

Perhaps lag behind the latest stable GNOME release for stable Evolution
releases, so that e.g. evolution-2.8.x still compiles and runs fine on
GNOME 2.14.  But then evolution-2.9.x can utilize whatever new features
GNOME 2.16 has to offer.

Whatever policy is decided, configure.in should clearly state and check
for the required versions of the libraries we depend on.

Matthew Barnes