Re: gtk changes in the jhbuild moduleset

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 06:33 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we are getting ready to start development of gtk 3.90 in master.
> > To avoid causing lots of breakage and irritation, here is the plan:
> >
> > 1) Switch the modulesets to use the gtk-3-22 branch for the gtk
> > module
> > 2) Rename the gtk module to gtk3
> > 3) Add a gtk4 module that follows master
> > 4) Switch applications over to  use gtk4 as they are found to work
> >
> > If you see a problem with that, please let me know.
>
> Which would mean nothing called "gtk+" in the modulesets? Why not keep
> either gtk 3.x or gtk 4.x with that name?
>
> I'd expect the "gtk+" module to build GTK+ 4.x ("the latest").

I have no strong opinion on this. Not having gtk+ in the moduleset
doesn't seem like a big deal to me. The + in the name is a bit
awkward, tbh.