Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 13:32 schrieb John Spray: > Right, I didn't realise at the time that I was introducing a gtkmm 2.6 > dependency with some of the pixbuf stuff. I could put an #if around it > for the convenience of those compiling it for the moment (ultimately > that code needs replacing with something better anyway). However, > unless you desperately want me to, I won't do that because I would like > to depend on 2.6, for the FileChooserButton widget.
An #ifdef is not needed, this is experimental code anyway. > I know that at the time we moved from the gtkmm 2.2 API to the 2.4 API > there was some objection over the inconvenience of having latest > libraries around. I appreciate this (speaking as someone who had to > manually compile and install gtkmm into his home directory on his work > machine...), but I really think it's worth it - I don't intend to depend > on anything incredibly bleeding edge. IMHO this is a tradeoff. If the new version leads to much simpler code, then it is worth it. > > What would be really useful to have: A configure check for the minimum > > required gtk* libraries. > Yes, this would be good. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about > autotools, I guess we need something in configure.ac that checks the > GTKMM_VERSION variable that we already have in there? Either that, or maybe pkg-config can help here? > So can someone that knows autotools put in a check for gtkmm 2.6 or > above? Not now please, we need to get 1.4.0 out first. Georg
