Re: Steps to get to GTK+ 3.0

["BJörn Lindqvist" <bjourne gmail com>]

You are right. Do you know on which system configurations on which it
is hard to install a gcc version with c99 Support?


Does anyone know how widespread the lack of c99-able compilers are?


Regardless, gtk+ 3.0 is a long-term project, probably with a first
release sometime in 2010 or so. Embedded developers wont want to pick
it up before 2012.
At which time i would feel really sorry for them if they still haven't
access to a c99-capable compiler.


2008/6/3, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>:
> 2008/6/3 BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com>:
>
>>
>>
>> Here is an overview:
>> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139. Merely the
>> initialization inside the for loop feature is a huge improvement. But
>> I never understood why someone needs to build the latest and greatest
>> GTK+ on an ancient compiler. Installing a recent version of gcc isn't
>> that difficult.
>>
>
> You're assuming GCC/Linux/x86 environments, there are other environments,
> such as embeded devices with optimized compilers for their architecture or
> non Linux operating systems for non x86 architectures where getting latest
> GCC is not as easy.
>
> As Gtk is targetting to the mobile space, I think keeping support for a
> broader set of compilers/platforms is essential and the gains of C99 for
> code that is already written, tested and working for C89 is not such a gain
> at all.
>
> I hope that this discussion will be moot some time in the near future
>> anyway, when gcc starts to ship with c99 enabled by default.
>>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alberto Ruiz
>


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mvh Björn