Re: Proposed: evolution

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

Are you volunteering to build stable Gnome 2.6 packages for the distros
on which we ship snapshots? There are not stable, supported-by-vendor
distributions that include Gnome 2.6 from Mandrake, SuSE, or Red Hat,
that I am aware of. We ship snaps for Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2, Red Hat 9,
and SuSE 8.2, 9.0, and 9.1. Depending on a totally new stack would kill
our testing, as we couldn't have snapshots without also shipping a
Gnome 2.6 desktop on all of those distros, which we don't have the
resources to do (yes, time is a resource too). I also don't believe
anyone has written/submitted a patch that just did this stuff through
the use of #ifdef, so that we were still compilable and usable on the
older distributions. I would be all for a patch to #ifdef GTK_VERSION
(2, 4, 0) or something for the file chooser dialog, though, it isn't
totally my decision if it goes in or not.

-- dobey

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:17 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 12:40, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 19.07.2004, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Anders Carlsson:
> > > One think I'd like to know is if the evolution hackers plan to move to
> > > GtkFileChooser, GNOME 2.8 will (of course) depend on GTK+ 2.4 which does
> > > have the new file chooser.
> > 
> > Unfortunately they won't [1]. I find it quiet disappointing considering
> > that there is excellent new API in GTK+ 2.4 (GtkAction and friends).
> 
> For GNOME 2.6 we considered it a stopper if an application didn't use
> the new file selector. It would be a bit unusual for us to now suddenly
> ship evolution with the old file selector.
> 
> --
> Andrew