Re: gtk-2.0

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Mon, Mar 11, 2002, à 04:12:06PM -0600, Lars Clausen a écrit:
> 
>> The main question now is: What do we do about Gtk 2.0 in Dia?  Do we
>> make a branch for the conversion?  Do we use a HAVE_GTK_2_0 macro (as I
>> have done so far)?  Do we ignore it till it stabilizes a bit?
> 
> I've made my opinion on the subject clear enough at several times.
> 
> Basically, we have to cater for three targets:
> 	* gtk
> 	* GNOME
> 	* gtk-win32
> 
> Assuming the new 2.0 releases are really of release quality, we still
> miss the non-beta GNOME libs. I'd say, let's see how others shake these
> for one, perhaps two months. In the mean time, let's fix what we
> currently have, so that we do a last gtk 1.4 release and then jump (this
> being said under the assumption that the G2 stuff is not rotten and is
> going to be released in a stable state and in a timely manner).

Since the Windows versions of Gtk 2.0 are due out in a couple months, it
makes sense to wait a bit.  Of course, Gtk 2.0 uses utf8 all over the
place, so the Unicode conversion will be much easier then.

-Lars

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