On May 1, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
Hi All,
I'm interested in upstreaming libgdl so that we can remove it from the inkscape codebase, but I notice that GDL has now been ported to Gtk3. Are there any plans in motion to port inkscape to Gtk3. Or is this something I could consider involving myself with.
Well, we are definitely waiting for Gtk3 to stabilize and be adopted before switching to that as a dependency. Being somewhat tied to GNOME3 is another problem, as that presents certain barriers to adoption in and of itself. Also many of the gains we want from it (new input support and such) are not yet implemented, so switching now will not bring us all of the eventual gains.
Along that direction, I recently updated our wiki list of distro support in the field:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies#Distros
At the moment it looks like Gtk+ 2.20 is going to be the safe one for us to require this year. OpenSuse will drop support for 11.2 next month, and since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has been out for a bit now, it is safe to ignore 8.04 LTS.