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

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Sat May 15 11:02:49 CEST 2010


Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 15 May 2010 01:13, silvioprog wrote:
>> If Lazarus abandon support for GTK could lose many members.
> 
> You totally misread my post. I wasn't talking about abandoning GTK (v1
> & v2), only GTK1 because it's often broken and nobody reports issues -
> probably because nobody really uses it any more. And as for LCL-GTK2,
> Lazarus really should try and keep up with the GTK2 development. GTK2
> is already at 2.30 and LCL-GTK2 still says we only support from GTK
> 2.4/2.6 yet all modern distros ship with GTK 2.16+ at least.

Debian Lenny is still at 2.10 afaik.

And don't forget: FPC still uses only i386 instructions in the default
setup while using Pentium4+ stuff would allow often much better code.
All modern CPUs support it for years ;)




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