Re: Increase minimum required GTK versions?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:03:07 -0600
> 
> I'd like to clean up the GTK code a bit by removing some of the obsolete
> codepaths; what's the policy was on supporting obsolete toolkit
> versions?
> 
> Looking at the GTK version history [1], the current minimum versions
> were released 2006-07-03 and 2011-02-10. Bumping the versions to 2.14
> (2008-09-04) and 3.10 (2013-09-23) would remove a good few checks. Is
> this still too recent? If not, perhaps the GTK+2 requirement could be
> bumped to the latest (2.24 -- 2011-01-30)?

The main factor is not how many years have passed, it's what the
distros provide.