Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] upgrade package gtk [PATCH]

[Tony Theodore]

On 13 May 2010 06:02, Mark Brand <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> This upgrade to gtk 2.90.0 builds fine and the test program works. Do we
>>> *want* to have this version in mingw-cross-env?
>>
>> It probably wouldn't hurt, from the release announcement
>>
>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-May/msg00044.html
>>
>> it seems to be the start of the 3.0 series. Apparently, it will
>> co-exist with 2.x so we should probably call it gtk3 and maintain it
>> separately.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>
> I only accepted the challenge of building 2.90.0  because it was offered by
> "make update". I am not particularly advocating switching to the gtk3 branch
> now.
>
> Also, somehow I managed to neglect the test program in the patch. The
> supplemental patch attached here takes care of it.

I didn't get a chance to look at it yet, but gtk3 is probably a long
way off. As an aside, after you mentioned gcc4.5 and qt, I noticed
qt-4.7-tp and beta1 have been released, probably a better use of
`spare` time to start testing them.

Tony