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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

GTK 2.8 released!!!

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-an … 00054.html

Yee-hawwww!

shadowhunter

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Registered: 2003-10-08

Posts: 26

Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

Now we need gnome 2.12...

It really sucks using this menu editor (smeg or so)...

Geert.

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

I love your annoucements, Gullible have you thought about creating a blog and having Xentac add an RSS feed of it to  Planet Arch?

Cam

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From: Brisbane, Aus

Registered: 2004-12-21

Posts: 658

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Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

Uhhh, where is pango 1.10? Am I missing something?

EDIT: Never mind, obviously isn't released yet for whatever reason.

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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

Hmm, I'm not happy with this...

GTK 2.8 requires a development snapshot of cairo (0.9.2), which has a nice .so bump...

The reason why I'm not happy about this, is because the stupid fucky libtool .la files in all packages cause all programs to link on every library any other library links to. This makes sure I have to recompile every shitty app that I have compiled against Gtk 2.7/8, which is in fact the complete gnome 2.12 prerelease repository I created...

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

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Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

I personally think Arch should follow the Slack example and "outsource" the gnome pkgs...

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

I personally think Arch should follow the Slack example and "outsource" the gnome pkgs...

Ah, so I should stop maintaining the software I use on my own system as arch maintainer? Nope...

I think we should tell the KDE devs to stop using their broken libtool stuff. They detect libs by libtool .la files most of the time, not by pkg-config. Libtool archives are evil. The reason why we still keep them in is because if we want to remove one, we need to remove all that depend on it.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

Wait a minute... JGC, are you saying that an upgrade to 2.8 will require all GTK2 apps to be recompiled against it? :shock:

mak

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Registered: 2004-03-08

Posts: 47

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Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

well. i am running gtk2-2.8.0 since early this morning, no real probs, except some font-size-differences ...
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VERY annoying, if i might add. *grmmm*

btw. anyone having a clue, why they didn't release pango-1.10, since its a dependency ... > very strange.

mak.

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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

Pango 1.10 will come tomorrow.

This release of GTK 2.8 is backwards compatible with GTK 2.x, but the problem comes with cairo: if you have compiled other stuff against GTK 2.7, which depends on cairo, then you have to recompile all of those programs again, which means I have a huge todo list for my Gnome 2.12 repository.

I'm currently working on getting rid of all those fucky .la files in the packages I update. Glib2, cairo and poppler are already ready for upload to testing without .la files. I'm waiting for Pango 1.10, because the 1.9.2 snapshot contains a nasty bug that breaks Gtksourceview, which means programs like gedit and anjuta seem to be a bit broken.

WillySilly

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Registered: 2005-01-14

Posts: 268

Re: GTK 2.8 released!!!

Okay. GTK 2.8 is built. Consider it unstable since I'm the only one that has used these.

In the pango pkgbuild i added cairo to the dependency list so it would avoid the stupid mistake that I made of not building cairo before pango.

http://hackerslair.info/gtk2.8 are where the pkgbuilds are, have at it.