On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 11:05 AM Alex <agrambot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>
> > Alex wrote:
> >> Both Debian Jessie (oldstable) and Ubuntu 14.04LTS include GTK 2.24 and
> >> 3.10. Is that good enough?
> >
> > I also suggest looking at RHEL 5, since Red Hat says they'll support it
> until
> > 2020-11-30 (see <https://access.redhat.com/articles/2986371>).
>
> Do we really have to consider RHEL 5, considering that it's on "Extended
> Life Cycle Support"[1]? If someone is paying extra for post-Production
> support for a "retired"[1] enterprise distro from 2007, then I doubt
> that they or their users will be running the latest Emacs, especially a
> GTK build instead of terminal-only or another toolkit such as Lucid.
> Even if they are, they can probably install a later version of GTK as
> well, right?
>
> RHEL 5 also only has GCC 4.1.2; is this enough for Emacs?
>
> FWIW, RHEL 6, which is still in Production phase, has GTK 2.24.
>
> I've attached a patch that bumps both versions and removes obsolete
> cruft. Bumping the GTK2 version helps the most here.
>
> [1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/690063
>

I am on RHEL 6.8 (work) and my GTK version is 2.24.23. So thanks for
keeping the min supported GTK version as 2.24.