Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 18:36 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> Le 10/06/10 13:27, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> > On 10 June 2010 12:24, Andre Klapper<ak-47 gmx net>  wrote:
> >> This requires module maintainers to port their modules now (if you don't
> >> want an angry release-team mob soon in front of your house).
> >
> > So, should we be requesting gtk3>= 2.90 in configure.ac now? At least
> > for Fedora rawhide the lack of gtk-engines makes all the gtk3-using
> > application look fugly.
> 
> To make Empathy build with gtk3 we need:
> 
>   - libcanberra-gtk-3
>   - libchamplain-gtk-3
>   - libclutter-gtk-3
>   - libunique-3 (or drop gtk2 compatibility and use GtkApplication)

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618473

Emmanuele could do a release.

>   - libwebkit-3
> 
> Once they are all released and parallel installable (we would like to 
> not lose gtk2 compatibility), we are ready to make the move :-)

Why is losing GTK2 compatibility a problem? It shouldn't matter. You
could create a gnome-2-32 branch and make changes there if you wanted.