Re: gtk changes in the jhbuild moduleset

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Simon McVittie
<simon mcvittie collabora co uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 11:14 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> > wrote:
> > > Which would mean nothing called "gtk+" in the modulesets? Why not
> > > keep
> > > either gtk 3.x or gtk 4.x with that name?
> > >
> > > I'd expect the "gtk+" module to build GTK+ 4.x ("the latest").
> >
> > I have no strong opinion on this. Not having gtk+ in the moduleset
> > doesn't seem like a big deal to me. The + in the name is a bit
> > awkward, tbh.
>
> Losing the gtk+ module would mean third-party modulesets are forced to
> make a decision on whether they want gtk3 or gtk4, which seems like it
> might be desirable?

I ended up naming the modules gtk+-3 and gtk+, and I switched all
existing dependencies in the moduleset to gtk+-3 for now. 3rd party
modules will still have to make a decision. We can change the name to
gtk+-4 if that is preferred.