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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Kept support of Visual Studio 2005

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:17:48 -0700
On 5/20/13 8:29 AM, Evan Huus wrote:
>
> A similar question regarding glib versions came up a few weeks ago - it
> would be good if we could talk at Sharkfest about a plan of some sort
> for support lifespans. Obviously every case is slightly different but it
> would be good to agree on some sort of general policy, both for internal
> use and for communication to the more stability-oriented vendors who
> might be evaluating Wireshark.

We've typically supported GLib and GTK+ versions for five years. I'd be
OK with applying this to Visual Studio versions as well. It looks like
we can bump the minimum GLib version to 2.16 so I'll do that shortly.