Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] gtk1 support still necessary?

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From: "Anders Broman (AL/EAB)" <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:02:25 +0100
 

>>>It's probably time to designate an upcoming release as "1.0", which 
>>>would include GTK1 support and receive bug fixes and security
updates.
>>>We could then remove GTK1 from the trunk and any post-1.0 releases.
>>>    
>>>
>I like the idea of getting an official 1.0 release and even more,
dropping the GTK1 support as this will save us a lot of work.
>
>As there are also some rumors of an upcoming GTK 3.x, we're already a
bit "old" with our GTK1 support :-) And keeping three different versions
with >#ifdef in the sources doesn't seem to be really desirable ...

>But I'm actually a bit skeptical about: "receive bug fixes and security
updates"
>
>Let's be honest, the buglist of the current beta grows with a few bugs
each week (estimated), so we don't even keep up with the current
incoming rate.
>
>So who's really going to do this maintenance work, when the release and
the latest branch are no longer in real sync after some time?
>
>Regards, ULFL

What about GTK 2.6 should we update to that on Windows?

Brg
Anders