[Lazarus] Suggestion: Remove GTK1 support from IDE and LCL.

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.05.2010, 11:02 +0000 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:

> Might I suggest that just as some widget sets are marked as "pre alpha" 
> it might be appropriate to mark gtk v1 as "post omega" and move it to 
> the bottom of the list rather than junking it completely? That way it 
> could degrade gracefully but would still be visible to anybody who 
> wanted it, and the onus would be on him to report or fix any removed or 
> unimplemented functionality.

+1

Another solution could be to make some sort of installable package from
the GTK1 support. I have to admit that I don't know if that is
technically possible.

A third option would be to have a special release of lazarus and fpc
that can be used for compiling using lcl-gtk1 that is downloadable and
installable seperately. This "GTK+ Edition" of lazarus/fpc could be used
to keep up care and necessary bug fixing for those programs in the
future.

Solution two and three would take more effort to be realized than only
marking gtk1 as deprecated but still usable (on ones own risk ;).

I am still using gtk1 and will continue to do so for some applications
that are running on older and thus slower hardware.

-- 
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>