gEDA-dev: Complaint: Stuff in CVS is not GTK-2.4 compliant

[Werner Hoch]

Hi Carlos,

On Sunday 17 December 2006 02:42, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Guys --
>
> I just grabbed the latest gEDA/gaf out of CVS and tried to build it.
> My build failed with this error:
>
> /usr/local/src/geda/gaf/gschem/src/x_autonumber.c:1082: undefined
> reference to `gtk_combo_box_get_active_text'

I take a look at it and write a workaround.
Can't imaging that we really need this function.

> I am glad to see that so much work has been done in gEDA/gaf.  It's
> wonderful that gEDA has such a large number of passionate and devoted
> developers!
>
> However, one of the ground rules for modifying gEDA/gaf is that we
> are sticking to stuff reliant upon GTK-2.4 and below.  However,
> gtk_combo_box_get_active_text was introduced in GTK-2.6:
>
> http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/gtk/GtkComboBox.html#gtk-combo-box-
>get-active-text
>
> Therefore, we are at a crossroads.  Either:
>
> *  The person who included this fcn could please replace it with
> something GTK-2.4 compliant

If only small changes required to remain 2.4 compliant, I vote for that.

Regards
Werner