gtk3-3.5.2-1 ???

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 01:55 +0300, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 06/08/2012 12:44 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Well, what do you mean by 'use it', exactly? F17 has GTK+ 3.4. 3.5 is a
> > new major version - it's not API/ABI compatible. If you were going to
> > backport it to F17 you'd have to either install it alongside 3.4 - in
> > which case you would not, in practice, be 'using it', it'd just be
> > sitting there - or recompile all (or at least some) of the GTK+ apps you
> > run against 3.5. That's a major undertaking and would leave you with a
> > system that was rather diverged from F17.
> 
> Not true. GTK+ 3.5 is API/ABI compatible with earlier GTK+ 3.x releases.
> This means that an app compiled with GTK+ 3.0 or 3.2 or 3.4 will
> continue to work with GTK+ 3.5. Barring any bugs, of course.
> 
> Also, GTK+ 3.x releases are not parallel installable, so installing the
> gtk3-3.5.2 package would replace the gtk3-3.4.3 package that's in F17.

Sorry, my bad. I assumed there was a bump, I should've checked.

It still doesn't sound like a terribly good idea, though.
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