[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 2/2] autobuild: gtk2 has been dropped for windows

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:40:04PM +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > ACK
> 
> I didn't push this one because it's a bit critical IMHO and I will
> explain why :-)
> A few months ago I dropped gtk2 support from the Windows builds in
> order to avoid maintenance of a code that is not being used as, for
> Windows builds, we have been using gtk3 since 2.0.
> The only problem with the gtk3 approach is that Windows XP support has
> been dropped (I found it out after posting this patch, while debugging
> a non-related crash). So, if we go for a gtk3 build we automatically
> are dropping Windows XP support as well.
> 
> So, I'd like to hear from everyone (also including Daniel) if I should
> revert those patches removing gtk2 support for windows and with that
> have a last release with Windows XP support or if we are okay dropping
> Windows XP support.

If anyone is mad enough to still use ancient outdated unsupported
Windows XP, they should be just fine using an ancient outdated
unsupported virt-viewer version too. IOW I don't care about dropping
support for XP.


Regards,
Daniel
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