On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
It would probably be worthwhile to look at what version of Gtk is installed in the enterprise distros that were released around a year ago. That'd give a reasonably conservative estimate of what library versions we can count on being out there.
Actually... probably not.
Remember, the enterprise distros tend to have very long lifecycles. (IT departments dislike having to vet and roll-out new versions constantly).
Last I'd looked, you were seeing 5-year lifetimes for releases. And although RedHat has 4 out, they still have 3 (though at least they seem to have finally aged-out 2).
Hmmm... one quick peek found me GTK+ 2.4.13 for Centos 4. This appears in the latest (4.2) on the mirror close to me. That would also tend to indicate that RedHat is only up to 2.4.13 on their very latest-and-greatest.
Looks like SUSE enterprise 9 is only up to GTK+ 2.2.4, so they're right out. :-) NLD seems to have GTK+ 2.4.9 It's their home product, "SUSE Linux 10.0" that has GTK+ 2.8.3.
Are there any other enterprise distros we should check out?