From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Increase minimum required GTK versions? 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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::532 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235091 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Alex >> 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. Both Debian Jessie (oldstable) and Ubuntu 14.04LTS include GTK 2.24 and 3.10. Is that good enough?