From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Increase minimum required GTK versions? Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 22:08:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8b98wg3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h8b9tz84.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="269218"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com> Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 07 21:09:30 2019 Return-path: <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1hDDAX-0017wX-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 21:09:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1hDDAW-0007cE-DU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 15:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1hDD9w-0007c9-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 15:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1hDD9w-0007ux-8X; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 15:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2145 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1hDD9v-0003jd-Kh; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 15:08:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h8b9tz84.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Alex on Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:03:07 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/> List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235090 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/235090> > From: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:03:07 -0600 > > I'd like to clean up the GTK code a bit by removing some of the obsolete > codepaths; what's the policy was on supporting obsolete toolkit > versions? > > Looking at the GTK version history [1], the current minimum versions > were released 2006-07-03 and 2011-02-10. Bumping the versions to 2.14 > (2008-09-04) and 3.10 (2013-09-23) would remove a good few checks. Is > this still too recent? If not, perhaps the GTK+2 requirement could be > bumped to the latest (2.24 -- 2011-01-30)? The main factor is not how many years have passed, it's what the distros provide.