Re: gtk+ version poll

[Craig Routledge <lists craigroutledge com>]

On 2007-08-21 03:12, Pawel Salek wrote:
> I have ported the wizard now only to realize that I cannot  
> compile any more the code on my laptop which comes with gtk+-2.6 :).
> 
> The question I would like to ask: is it worth to keep the old code  
> around? What gtk+ versions are being used nowadays? I wouldn't like to  
> keep the old code around just for my laptop's sake.

Here is a sample of distributions with data taken from distrowatch.com

GTK 2.6 (or higher) available on:

CentOS             5                   2007-04-12
Debian             3.1 - Sarge         2005-06-06
Fedora             4 - Stentz          2005-06-13
FreeBSD            5.4                 2005-05-09
Gentoo             2005.0              2005-03-28
Knoppix            3.8.2               2005-05-12
Mandriva           2005                2005-04-14
NetBSD             2.1                 2005-11-02
Novell SLE         10                  2006-07-17
RedHat Enterprise  5                   2007-03-14
Solaris            10                  still at 2.4
Slackware          10.1                2005-02-07
SuSE               9.3                 2005-04-15
Ubuntu             5.04 - Hoary        2005-04-08

Of course, this doesn't say anything about how many people are still using 
even older versions, it just shows availability.