Re: GTK+-2.3.0 released [unstable]

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Matthias Mann <matman matman24 org> writes:

>  Now GtkCTree is not very old but deprecated. What's about
>  GtkFileSelection? Du i need to update my source code in
>  the next three months?

Deprecated doesn't mean that you cannot use it any longer. It just
means that you should not be using it in new code.

>  If i like to install any for M$-Windows 1995 written
>  application on a $Windows XP system (since 2000) there are
>  no problems while using these very old binaries on a modern
>  PC system. But installing Gtk+ application binaries,
>  written in 2002, will make big problems for big projects
>  if i like to install them on a one year newer OS(with Gtk+)?

Just keep gtk+-1.2 installed and you can continue to use the old
software. This actually works a lot better than Windows backward
compatibility.


Sven