[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 2/2] autobuild: gtk2 has been dropped for windows

Fabiano Fidêncio fidencio at redhat.com
Wed Dec 2 10:28:49 UTC 2015


On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:40:04PM +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> > ACK
>>>
>>> I didn't push this one because it's a bit critical IMHO and I will
>>> explain why :-)
>>> A few months ago I dropped gtk2 support from the Windows builds in
>>> order to avoid maintenance of a code that is not being used as, for
>>> Windows builds, we have been using gtk3 since 2.0.
>>> The only problem with the gtk3 approach is that Windows XP support has
>>> been dropped (I found it out after posting this patch, while debugging
>>> a non-related crash). So, if we go for a gtk3 build we automatically
>>> are dropping Windows XP support as well.
>>>
>>> So, I'd like to hear from everyone (also including Daniel) if I should
>>> revert those patches removing gtk2 support for windows and with that
>>> have a last release with Windows XP support or if we are okay dropping
>>> Windows XP support.
>>
>> If anyone is mad enough to still use ancient outdated unsupported
>> Windows XP, they should be just fine using an ancient outdated
>> unsupported virt-viewer version too. IOW I don't care about dropping
>> support for XP.
>>
>
> Nice, so I will push this patch.

Pushed!

>
> Best Regards,




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