On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 01:55 +0300, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 06/08/2012 12:44 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Well, what do you mean by 'use it', exactly? F17 has GTK+ 3.4. 3.5 is a > > new major version - it's not API/ABI compatible. If you were going to > > backport it to F17 you'd have to either install it alongside 3.4 - in > > which case you would not, in practice, be 'using it', it'd just be > > sitting there - or recompile all (or at least some) of the GTK+ apps you > > run against 3.5. That's a major undertaking and would leave you with a > > system that was rather diverged from F17. > > Not true. GTK+ 3.5 is API/ABI compatible with earlier GTK+ 3.x releases. > This means that an app compiled with GTK+ 3.0 or 3.2 or 3.4 will > continue to work with GTK+ 3.5. Barring any bugs, of course. > > Also, GTK+ 3.x releases are not parallel installable, so installing the > gtk3-3.5.2 package would replace the gtk3-3.4.3 package that's in F17. Sorry, my bad. I assumed there was a bump, I should've checked. It still doesn't sound like a terribly good idea, though. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
