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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:54:29
Message-Id: 44D736AD.8090307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2 by Enrico Weigelt
1 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2
3 >
4 > It mixes up diffent things to one and just introduces new
5 > problems instead of solving anything. I could live with that,
6 > if it's for supporting different ABIs, but it obviously isn't.
7 >
8
9 No?
10
11 > gtk1 and gtk2 are completely different packages, they're not
12 > compatible. So why should they be one package ? Just because
13 > they share some ideas and the name ?!
14
15 Because gtk-2.xx is originated from gtk+-1.2.xx and you still have a
16 common set of widget API ?
17
18 >
19 > For example, there are lots of packages requiring gtk1, other
20 > gtk2. As long as dependencies don't cope the slot cleanly,
21 > slotting is utterly useless.
22
23 gtk-1 is deprecated, it will disappear sooner or later.
24
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27 Luca Barbato
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29 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
30 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2 Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>