14 Jan
2014
14 Jan
'14
12:22 a.m.
Well, I'm getting old I guess,
tde-libksquirrel has xmedcon as an optional dependency that
provides medical
image handling and conversion. (CT, MRI, PET, etc..) I always
build it because I
use the functionality. My question was for these type of
applications is whether
there is any preference whether they are built against GTK2 or
GTK3 if we have a
choice.
The reason it matters to me is that if some apps are built with
a gtk2
dependency, you pull in gtk2 as a build dependency, if against
gtk3, then you
pull in gtk3. (that looks like it will happen for the foreseeable
future
anyway). I didn't know if there had been any discussion about
trying to minimize
build dependencies such that if an option existed to use either
gtk2 or 3, if
there was a preference for one or the other.
Smacks self -- there I go thinking someone else will actually be
building tde
on arch except me -- never mind...
I think this still goes back to "Apps like xmedcon are outside the
scope of Trinity. Distro packagers and maintainers ensure the
dependencies are satisfied."
If xmedcon is not installed then ksquirrel does not build that
support. If you are supporting Trinity packages for other users and
they want xmedcon support, I'm sure they will let you know.
Whether gtk2 or gtk3 is preferred, I don't know of any distro
maintainers dropping gtk2 support any time soon. Perhaps the
question is moot for the next few years?
Darrell