Murray.Cumming@...166... wrote:
We can't expect customers to have recent versions of anything,
If they can get your application, then they can get your application's dependencies. It has not always been easy to get either applicatins or their dependencies but it's getting better now that Fedora is official.
nor can we expect them to upgrade.
Why shouldn't they upgrade? If the dependencies have stable API and ABIs then there is no reason not to upgrade the depenencies.
Like I said, because they're our customers. They tell US what to do.
Often in the Unix world, there are valid reasons why someone cannot upgrade. Sometimes in an institutional environment, the reason is simply because they cannot get the admin's permission to do so.
But, hey, I'm agreeing with you. ;-) If we can get around the dependencies for architecture X, then I think we can go ahead with gtkmm.
I have a question, something we were talking about a week ago. Is it possible to build recent versions of gtkmm and sigc++ with not-so-recent versions of Gtk, Glib, and the like? It would be good if we could limit the wildcards of the distro to only those two libs.