On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:52:16AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> GTK+ 2.4 requires GLib 2.4, so if we're building with GTK+, that
> requires GLib 2.4 or later.
>
> One could, I guess, build everything *but* Wireshark with an earlier
> version of GLib, but requiring 2.2 or later means that, for example,
> we wouldn't have to check for g_ascii_strtoull(), as that first
> appeared in 2.2, and requiring 2.4 or later means that we wouldn't
> have to check for G_GINT64_MODIFIER, as that first appeared in 2.4.
Requiring GLib 2.4+ makes sense. The fewer workarounds we have to do
for things missing in early GLib versions, the better.
Steve