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Re: [trinity-devel] GTK dependency standard for helper packages/apps?

From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:33:07 -0600
On 01/13/2014 11:05 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> All, Darrell,
> 
>   Going through build scripts for dependency/helper application like xmedcon, I
> was building them against gtk2 last year for both tde13 and R14. Do we have any
> 'tde' standard we are trying to enforce for minimizing the dependencies for a
> complete tde install?
> 
>   What I mean is that if someone goes to install tde-full with all helper apps,
> do we want and try to say all apps with a gtk requirement should be built
> against gtk3 instead of gtk2?  I for one prefer gtk2, but I can see the logic in
> standardizing around a version to minimize dependencies (and to prevent build
> failures when gtk2 is dropped)
> 
>   Has anyone given this any thought? I don't like the prospect of having to
> recode older apps against a new gtk, but it is doable. The number of apps this
> will apply to is minimal.
> 

Well,

  It looks like it is gtk2 for now for xmedcon. The good news is xmedcon has
been updated to version 0.13.0, so update you sources, but it is still gtk2.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmedcon/files/XMedCon-Source/0.13.0/xmedcon-0.13.0.tar.bz2

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.