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

[Peter TB Brett]

On Monday 31 December 2007 15:23:43 Dan McMahill wrote:
> Peter TB Brett wrote:
> > 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 updated guile to 1.8.x in NetBSD's pkgsrc last june so I have no real
> complaints about moving to a newer guile.

That's good to hear.

> > 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.
>
> Why 2.8.0 if the features were introduced in 2.6.0?  One of the machines
> which is doing pcb autobuilds has 2.4.x and it seems to build both pcb
> and gerbv correctly.

I'd quite like to start using a version which requires Cairo, as that will at 
least open the possibility of e.g. adding alternative renderers.  Hopefully 
by the time gEDA 1.6 is being considered cairo performance will be (much) 
improved. ;)

                               Peter


-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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