[Lazarus] Suggestion again: remove GTK1 from IDE and LCL

[Marc Weustink]

Marc Santhoff wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 02.06.2010, 15:37 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The previous message thread on this topic some weeks ago had lots of
>> noise and no clear answer. Though I think it did raise some awareness
>> to the problem.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> For those die-hard developers that must continue to use GTK1 -
>> continue using 0.9.28.3 until you can upgrade to GTK2. Life evolves,
>> so should your project. But it's rather pointless having a widgetset
>> marked "deprecated" (already a good starting point) in the widgetset
>> list, when it fact it cannot even be compiled any more.
> 
> No it isn't pointless. You forget about embedded computers, they are not
> growing over time and are running on small amounts of ressoruces, e.g. a
> 233 MHz Geode CPU having 64 MB of RAM. I wouldn't even dare to try GTK2
> on that little things.
> 
>> I vote to simply remove it completely from the widgetset list. No
>> point in having something marked "deprecated" in Beta software either.
>> I think the Lazarus project is the first to ever do this (at least
>> from all project I have ever seen). :-)
> 
> Can you please explain one point for me:
> 
> The process of removing GTK1 is a bunch of work for the developers of
> lazarus as it is for the users of GTK1 beeing bound to use it, because
> they will have to care for getting and using the right versions of
> lazarus and fpc. Additionally someone has to document all this in the
> wiki.
> 
> But what exactly is the benefit of doing all this work?

Let me be clear:

GTK1 wont get removed.

Marc