Re: GtkSpreadTable ('spread-table' branch)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 09:56 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:48 +0200, David King wrote:
> > On 2010-10-14 11:52, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > >If nobody says they want this soon then I guess we'll just put it in
> > >libegg.
> > 
> > I am ready to add this to libegg, but it seems to depend on GTK+ 2 only 
> > right now, so do we want GTK+ 3 code there? If so, should I update 
> > everything to use GTK+ 3, make GTK+ 2/3 support selectable at configure 
> > time or simply dump the code in a subdirectory with a separate Makefile 
> > (much like wrapbox is currently)?
> 
> libegg components are meant to be copy and pasted into other projects;
> adding a dependency on gtk+-3 just for the spread-table is not a problem
> at all. just add a conditional like the ones currently there for
> different versions of gtk+-2.0, and recurse into the spread-table
> directory if gtk+-3.0 is available.

Wouldn't it be enough just to branch it and make master use only GTK+ 3?
Or is it used by so many projects that try to support both GTK+ 2 and 3
in the same branch (which seems increasingly painful)?

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