On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:59:13PM -0600, Aaron Spike wrote:
If you think back to our last release a decision was made to hold back on inflating our GTK requirements until the 0.45 release. 0.45 time has come and we will now officially be requiring GTK 2.8+. Is this correct?
Actually the compromise we had reached was for Gtk 2.6 for 0.45, and then 2.8 for 0.46, IIRC. The reasoning was that Gtk 2.8 is not available on OSX. If this has changed with OSX, then presumably all issues against moving to 2.8 now would be resolved.
If I am not mistaken GTK 2.8 requires Cairo. This is good for us. I've been researching creating runtime checks for cairo's availability. If we agree on GTK 2.8, I won't have to worry about that. We may, however, want to consider runtime checks for the PDF backend. I've been looking into relaytool as a method for doing this on linux.
Sounds good.
Bryce