On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:44:09AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > yesterday I started to port some code in GIMP CVS to functionality > > that is only in glib-2.6. So we are now depending on glib >= 2.6.0. > > glib-2.6 has been packaged for most distros for quite a while so that > > dependency shouldn't cause any problems. > > I should note that Mandrake 10.1 (much less older releases) does not ship with > glib-2.6. I was able to build the glib-2.6 SRPMS from Mandrake Cooker without > too many problems, though. > > > Mitch, me and probably others already have some changes pending that > > would introduce a dependency on gtk+-2.6. So far we have usually > > waited until a package reaches debian testing before depending on it. > > Since gtk+-2.6 only just yesterday appeared in debian unstable, this > > would mean waiting at least another nine days. Now I wonder if that's > > worth it. I'd rather ask you to speak up if you want to hack on GIMP > > CVS and a dependency on gtk+-2.6 would cause you serious problems. If > > noone objects, we will bump the minimum required gtk+ version this > > weekend. > > I haven't tried to compile gtk-2.6 for Mandrake yet. At the worst case, I can > install it from source using ./configure --prefix=. Just for your consideration: I failed to install GTK 2.6 on a SuSE 9.1 machine. A lot of weir things happened (fonts were not being found, gdm crashed, some unresolved symbol XineramaIsActive etc.). I had to remove GTK 2.6 and GLIB 2.6, to get a usable system again. I'm not a developer, so this is not an objection, just a note. Bye, Tino.
