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

[Gustavo Enrique Jimenez]

2010/5/15 Krisztián Nagy <nkrisztian89 at gmail.com>:
> "Does anyone use a Linux distribution that is no longer supported by it's
> maker?
> If so why?"
> There was a discussion in the thread about the usage of old releases, see it
> there.
> I personally know people who use for example old ubuntu because their
> hardware is not supported (I know this normally does not happen but it still
> does in some cases) or too slow with the newer releases. I gues there can be
> more reasons.
> The point I was trying to make was that we should know who and on which
> system uses lazarus so such decisions could be made.
> I do not have that information. If there is some source from where you know
> that no one uses lazarus on releases with old gtk just show it and that
> should solve this issue. :)
> However, I agree that in general it is a viable policy to align the required
> version to the officially supported main distros (and of course take
> advantage of all of it's features). But I think at this point we do not know
> if the general case applies to lazarus or our user base is different and we
> should follow a different path (like being compatible with old systems).
> I hope it is clear now.
> Krisztián
> --

For .deb packages, Debian Stable must be used as a reference distro.

Gustavo


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