Re: Gtk+ 2.24, Gtk+3 and GLib 2.28 in the middle

[Erick Pérez Castellanos <erick red gmail com>]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'll get now those package makers of my distro.

Thanks

-----Original Message----- 
From: Murray Cumming
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:21 AM
To: ErickPérezCastellanos
Cc: gtk-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Gtk+ 2.24, Gtk+3 and GLib 2.28 in the middle

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 01:35 -0300, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote:
> Hi list:
>
> I have this doubt, I have Gnome 2.32 installed and I want to develop and
> application using Gtk+3, my doubt is that my Gnome 2.32 using Gtk+ 2.24
> requires GLib 2.26, and Gtk+ 3 requires GLib 2.28. will I need to replace 
> my
> GLib 2.26 ?
> As far as I read both Gtk versions are can be installed together, and if
> both GLib versions are parallel installable, then there's no problem, if 
> it
> is not, the Gtk+ 2.24 will compile with the new GLib 2.28 ?

Yes.

> Note: I do know I'm able to install my development enviroment on opt and
> start working without affecting my main system, I'm asking for installing
> those libraries on my main system.
>
> I'm asking here first so I can yell at my distro package makers with a
> reason for not having Gtk+ 3 already avalaible for the users.

If your distro doesn't have GTK+ 3 then glib is probably not part of the
reason.

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