Hi,
currently the code base depends on GLib >= 2.4, Pango >= 1.6 and GTK+ >=
2.4. I would like to propose higher base versions, at least for GLib,
better for all three of them.
* GLib 2.6.0, Pango 1.8.0 and GTK+ 2.6.0 were released in December
2004. All major distributions should be able to have these
packages at the time GnuCash 2.2 will be out. RHEL 5 seems to be
planned for the end of February.
* We include gkeyfile and gutils from GLib 2.6 already and would
need to add more if we want to release GnuCash on a Windows
platform.
* We have some GTK+ 2.6 #ifdef's lying around to let users with
more recent versions take advantage of it. Seems to concern
mostly GtkComboBox, but not only.
* Strictly speaking GLib 2.6 would be enough for me, but as
mentioned above, GLib 2.6, Pango 1.8 and GTK+ 2.6 were released
around the same time, so they might interplay better than other
version combinations.
There might be other reasons, like removing the burden to check whether
a GLib/Gtk 2.6 feature is worth single-casing it. What do you think?
-- andi5
PS: Pango seems to be an implicit dependency, so maybe no code change is
necessary here. One might then also consider an update of LibGSF or
GOffice, but that is not overly important for me.
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