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

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>]

Le 12/06/10 14:49, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> 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.

Ubuntu told me that Maverick (the next ubuntu release) is not going to 
ship GTK3, and if we can't build Empathy with GTK2 then they'll just 
keep Empathy 2.30.x... tbh I think that's a bad decision from Ubuntu, 
but it would be really sad to not ship the latest empathy...

But I guess if the whole GNOME 2.32 depends on GTK3 then they'll change 
their mind.


Regards,
Xavier Claessens.