Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > and anyway, maybe adding a few ifdef round gimp code using > > specific 2.2.x features if it can safely be disabled may help > > users of older releases or other distros. > > We did that for a while. It not only became difficult to maintain > but at some point it became apparent that gtk+-2.0 just had too many > bugs that could not be worked around. The current code still has > some ifdefs that enable workarounds for bugs in gtk+ before version > 2.2.2. We do this in order to avoid a dependency on 2.2.2 but at > some point before gimp-2.0, we will have to drop these workarounds > and depend on gtk+-2.2.2 or newer. sure, when woraounding old bugs became too much development time consuming, it's better to just bump the requires. what's more, the odds are high that all distributors that will ship gimp-2.0 will ship gtk+-2.2.x too
