Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Getting a Cairo context

[John Tall <mjtallx gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> If you're writing new code and you're using GTK+ 2.x, you're sadly
> Doing It Wrong™, as the kids say today.

That's certainly true *if* you're a GNOME developer.

However, that's unfortunately not the world where all of us live. If
your client is on RHEL 6 it doesn't really matter how "wrong" it is to
write new gtk2 code, they didn't have gtk3 until last summer and so
far most of them only have it in a test environment.

The way I think of gtk2 is not that it's dead, it's done. It's a fine
library that works, that does what it's supposed to do and most likely
will continue to do so for quite some time. Some of us still needs it
for some cases and for those cases it's the right tool for the job.

John