Re: Gtkmm 2.4 on top of Gtk 2.2?

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> Does anyone here have any thoughts on whether or not it would be
> realistic to create a variant of the Gtkmm 2.4 API that would run on top
> of Gtk 2.2? I mean without support for the widgets that are new in Gtk
> 2.4 (and 2.6, 2.8 etc...), of course.

It should be possible and quite easy. You could create a patch for it, and
then create special RPMs, but I wouldn't accept the change into cvs
because it's not useful to enough people to justify the complication.

If you create this patch, it would be nice if you put it online somewhere.

> The thing is, we have some code written for Gtkmm 2.4 (or the "2.4" API,
> anyway), and intended for newer Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux, that someone now has decided must work on some old Red Hat Linux
> 9 installation - which have Gtk 2.2. So I'm wondering if it would be
> easier to back-port Gtkmm than to re-write the application code, or try
> to upgrade all of Gtk. We might still have to rewrite some code so that
> it avoids using new widgets, of course, but that's quite all right.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> (I'll probably try to build and see how far I get, but thought I might
> ask here before starting...)

Murray Cumming
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