Re: [libpeas] gobject-introspection and GTK+ dependencies

[Daniel Trebbien <dtrebbien gmail com>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Steve Frécinaux <code istique net> wrote:
>
> On 08/29/2010 02:14 AM, Daniel Trebbien wrote:
> > The `configure` script for libpeas-0.5.5 requires that the version of
> > gobject-introspection be at least 0.9.0 and the version of GTK+ be at
> > least 3. On which features does libpeas depend that are not available
> > in the gobject-introspection 0.6.x series and the GTK+ 2.x series?
>
> Bug 626221 [1] might give you more information on the subject.
>
> Basically:
>  - API changed between gobject-introspection 2.X and 3.X
>  - g-i won't be considered 100% stable before gtk+ 3.0
>  - gtk+ 2.0 and 3.0 are abi-incompatible so it means I'd have to use
>   different sonames for both.
>
> But you can currently build libpeas using gtk+ 2.0. I just guess there is not much interest in doing this apart from testing libpeas beforehand.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626221

Hello Steve,

How do I obtain GTK+ 3 so that I have what you have? I cloned the GTK+
git repository, then checked out branch gtk-2-90 ("GTK+ 3"), but when
I compiled and installed it, only a `gtk+-2.0` pkg-config file was
created and the version that is listed is 2.21.0. Did you change the
gtk-2-90 `gtk+-2.0.pc` file or do I have the wrong repo?

Daniel