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

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 15 May 2010 09:38, Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl> wrote:
>
> ... for years in a state pre-alpha, unmaintained, much like fpgui (SCNR).

Simply because LCL is  a lot more buggy that fpGUI, and because
LCL-fpGUI will limit the abilities in fpGUI. So I prefer to use the
real thing and get all the features the toolkit offers, that means
using fpGUI directly.


> Because GTK 2.6 is already LGPL.

I don't understand your comment. The latest GTK 2.30 is also LGPL.
Most distro also ship with GTK 2.16+ versions, so why hold LCL-GTK2
back with GTK 2.6 version as minimum.

"GTK+ is licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 allowing development of both
free and proprietary software with GTK+ without any license fees or
royalties."
    -- quoted from http://www.gtk.org the first paragraph on the home page.


> The license is a compelling feature of Qt
> 4.5.  I think you will see support for Qt 4.5 in Lazarus for the coming
> years.

OK, Qt was a licensing issue - I understand that now. Thanks for
pointing that out.  Still doesn't explain why LCL-GTK2 doesn't jump to
supporting a lot new version of GTK2 as minimum.


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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