On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:
Should we split
wireshark-win32-libs\glib into two directories, e.g. glib2-gtk2
(which would
contain the latest stable version) and glib2-gtk1 (which would
contain the
latest stable version that works with GTK+1)? It's probably a safe
bet that
future versions of GLib won't be guaranteed to work with GTK+1.
I was initially a bit surprised that GLib 2.x worked at all with GTK+
1.2[.x], but then I remembered that, on Windows, they used GLib 2.y,
for some value of y, even with GTK+ 1.2[.x].
I'd say we should be prepared to ship different versions of GLib with
GTK+ 2.x and 1.2[.x].
BTW, what are the reasons for still offering GTK+ 1.2[.x]? The ones I
can think of are:
1) I think in some cases GTK+ 1.2[.x] is faster;
2) I have the impression it handles 8-bit color on Windows better
than 2.x;
3) if you're building on a really old version of an OS that provides
GTK+, it might come with GTK+, and you might not want to upgrade the
OS or install a newer GTK+ just to get Wireshark.
