On 26.08.2006, at 15:32, Erwin Rol wrote:
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 14:32 +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
Hi List!
The current situation of Win98/95/ME (and Nt 4.0) support is
unsatisfactory IMHO.
I assume this is due to the request from Tor Lillqvist on the GTK list
to drop support for those platforms in upcoming GTK releases.
I am all for moving to GTK > 2.8 and drop any platform that isn't
supported by it.
I agree on droping Win95/Win98 and other OS's which are end of
support, end of life since many years.
I have however to disagree on dropping support for GTK version 1.2. I
currently build wireshark on MacOS X wiht GTK 1.2 for a good reason.
The dependencies of GTK is GLIB and nothing else. If you build it
with GTK2, then you end up with a few of dependencies which have
another large list of dependencies you have to build in addition. I
once tried and stopped after I compiled and patched like the 10ths
dependency. Things like ghostscript, cario, and a lot of other things
you never ever need in Wireshark. And when I build a binary, then all
the end users get a lot of files for nothing. This is very different
to other OS's which use this stuff to run their GUI in their X11
environment. this is not the case under MacOS X.
