Re: GTK app development for windows.

[Ardhan Madras <ardhan rocksis net>]

Yes we know that, they still providing GTK+2 or GTK+ for backward compability.
I was mean about version, because there are no stable GTK+ 3 for
Windows yet ( at least in official site gtk.org ), so if he want to
build his GTK+ app in Windows, the maintained and bundled development
release is available, that is version 2.24.
So, for less effort, Its better for him to use GTK+ 2 in Linux too,
unless he want to distiguish between GTK+3 and GTK+2 calls in the
code.

Regards.

2013/1/31 David NeÄas <yeti physics muni cz>:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:32:48AM +0700, Ardhan Madras wrote:
> > One thing you should know that most version of GTK+ in today Linux
> > system is using version 3.x.
>
> This is somewhat inaccurate.  All major Linux distributions contain
> Gtk+3 packages and the number of Gtk+3 programs grows.  But if you look
> outside core Gnome3, at third-party programs, the number of Gtk+2
> programs is huge.  Some will be never ported.  After all, even though
> they are quite rare nowadays, some Gtk+1 programs still have not been
> ported to Gtk+2...
>
> > I recommended you to use also GTK+ 2 in Linux, and you can build it
> > with no or less efforts in Windows compared if you use GTK+ 3 in Linux
> > but build it with GTK+ 2 in Windows.
>
> For new projects, I would not recommend using Gtk+2 unless you are
> quite conservative or it is a small project using only stock widgets
> (in such case porting to Gtk+3 will not be a big deal).
>
> For larger projects, it is more likely that Gtk+3 will be fine on MS
> Windows and Gtk+2 obsolete everywhere when you get to releasing a stable
> version...
>
> Yeti