Proposed changes for Pidgin 2.7.0

Kevin Stange kstange at pidgin.im
Tue Jul 14 16:32:04 EDT 2009


Luke Schierer wrote:
<snip>
> In the old gtk1 tree, we required 1.2.x where x did have a specific
> minimum, I just do not remember it.  I think it entirely reasonable to
> discontinue support for very ancient versions of glib, but I think,
> minimally, we ought to compile on an out of the box debian stable and
> out of the box most recent rhel.  I don't know off the top of my head
> what versions these would be.

FYI. Here's what modern Linux distros offer:

Debian Lenny:
ii  libglib2.0-0                       2.16.6-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0                        2.12.12-1~lenny1

Red Hat EL 5.3:
glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1
gtk2-2.10.4-20.el5

Fedora 11:
glib2-2.20.1-1.fc11
gtk2-2.16.1-4.fc11

Fedora 10:
glib2-2.18.2-3.fc10
gtk2-2.14.4-3.fc10

Gentoo:
[I--] [  ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.7-r2 (2)
[I--] [  ] dev-libs/glib-2.18.4-r1 (2)

Ubuntu Jaunty:
glib - 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
gtk - 2.16.1-0ubuntu2

Ubuntu Intrepid:
glib - 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.1
gtk - 2.14.4-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu Hardy:
glib - 2.16.6-0ubuntu1.1
gtk - 2.12.9-3ubuntu5

Slackware:
glib2-2.18.4-i486-1
gtk+2-2.14.7-i486-4

FreeBSD ports:
glib-2.20.4
gtk-2.16.4

OpenSuSE 11.1:
glib2-2.18.2-5.1
gtk2-2.14.4-8.1



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