On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:57:22 +0100 Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote:
> Recently there was some discussion on what version of Gtk we should > target in trunk. > > The consensus was 2.18.1, which is what RHEL6 supports. Fedora 14 is > shipping with 2.22, so targetting 2.24 would exclude those two > distributions. > > However, I'm having some practical issues here. My goal is to get > GnuCash ready for Gnome 3 as fast as possible. All migration > documentation specifies that as a first step, you should target 2.24 > and replace all deprecated gtk code in the version. > > It appears that is not possible if we still have to support 2.18.1 or > 2.22. > > An example: > We are using GtkComboBoxEntry in several places in the code. This > widget is deprecated in 2.24, so it should be replaced. The > replacement suggestion is a regular GtkComboBox, but created with > gtk_combo_box_new_with_entry. This will give you a GtkComboBox with a > GtkEntry child widget, effectively the same as the original > GtkComboBoxEntry. The problem is, gtk_combo_box_new_with_entry is a > new function only available starting from 2.24. So in order to > replace a deprecated widget, I have to use functionality that's not > available in the older Gtk versions we try to support. > > So what choice should I make here: > - give up on Gnome 3 for now (not my preference) ? > - give up on the older Gtk versions (not nice either) ? > - ... > > Geert > _______________________________________________ I guess that since key widgets are deprecated then there's not a lot of choice in the matter but to upgrade. I guess we'll be supporting GnuCash-2.4 branch for some time, which leads to the issue of how/where to apply bug fixes. Slightly related then, this page could do with an update: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development_Process _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
