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

Fabiano Fidêncio fidencio at redhat.com
Wed Dec 2 10:20:26 UTC 2015


On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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 If anyone is mad enough to still use ancient outdated unsupported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 Windows XP, they should be just fine using an ancient outdated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.
>

Nice, so I will push this patch.

Best Regards,




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