Re: [Pan-devel] GTK3 branch?

[Jack]

On 12/28/21 15:37, Petr Kovar wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:18:51 +0100
> Detlef Graef <d.graef-ANTagKRnAhcb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> maybe it is reasonable to create a branch for GTK3 in the public Pan
> Gitlab repo.
>
> When I build Pan with GTK3 I get a lot of warnings regarding deprecated
> GTK3 API calls.
>
> If I create a merge request regarding GTK3 changes I would like to have
> it in a own (GTK3) branch. I think by removing deprecated GTK3 API
> calls, GTK2 builds won't be possible anymore (don't want to have a huge
> number of #ifdef statements).
>
> Any opinions?
> That's certainly doable but note that once you do it you essentially create
> a fork, and then maintaining both versions in parallel will be hard if not
> impossible.
>
> But as GTK 2 is getting very old though still maintained upstream, we should
> probably do something here. The first and easy step would be to switch GTK
> 3 to default at build time.
>
> I wonder how many Pan users still require GTK 2 these days?

I suspect the only cases of any importance would be any LST versions of 
the major distros, which sometimes do get stuck with old libraries.  (I 
use Gentoo and Artix, so I can't give any examples.)  It should be 
possible to check the oldest LTS versions of Ubuntu and Gnome as examples.

I would consider it reasonable to make that fork, and only backport 
security fixes to GTK2, and do all new feature development in GTK3 only.

Jack