gEDA-dev: Required versions of Guile & GTK+ (again)

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 10:49 +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've found Guile features called Fluids and Dynamic Contexts.  These will 
> allow me to put a real flexible, dynamically extensible configuration 
> mechanism into gEDA that works much more cleanly than the current one does.
> 
> BUT: it would be very difficult to do this if the requirement for Guile 1.6 
> support persists. [1]
> 
> Given that Guile 1.8 has been the stable release of Guile for almost two years 
> now, arguments for *not* dropping Guile 1.6 support in the 1.6.x stable 
> series of gEDA should be *very* persuasive.

I'd concur was it not for the fact that Guile 1.8 might have portability
issues. Actually, Guile builds fine for windows (not like 1.6).. but
libgmp is rather tricky. (I can't recall if it was on Windows or PPC
Macs which it failed to pass its tests on, but I remember there were
some issues. Are they resolved?)

> Similarly, I would like to bump the required GTK+ version to *at least* 2.8.0 
> (released August 2005), as the majority of workarounds currently implemented 
> are to cope with features introduced in GTK+ 2.6.0.

I concur, but would be pretty happy with GTK+ 2.6 as a requirement. 2.8
would be better of course.

With all this, please bear in mind that 1.6.x probably won't happen (and
I'm guessing a bit here) for 6 months to a year after 1.4.x


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