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

[Vincent Snijders]

Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> 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.

We rather not support version that are not LGPL, like Qt 4.4. And no, it 
is not holding back, but making sure it still works. 2.18 or 2.20 works 
but 2.6 too, or rather 2.8, because that is the currently oldest 
supported version, afaik, (but IANAGD= I am not a gtk2 developer).

Vincent