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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] [PATCH] Elements Window
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Rob Spanton (rob AT robspanton DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> Hey Bert,
>
> I wrote:
>> You can find the patches I sent in the 'for-master/elementwin' branch
>> of my clone of pcb
>
> Bert Timmerman wrote:
>> I pulled your branch and tried to build pcb to evaluate.
>>
>> It barfs on "g_object_class_install_properties" and
>> "g_object_notify_by_pspec", both GObject-2.26 functions.
>
> Ah, rats!
>
>> As pcb still has a minimum version for Gtk of 2.18.? (released September
>> 2009 ... March 2010) we happen to be a bit behind current development.
>
> So it's GObject that's old on your system (Gtk might be too, but it's
> not complaining about that).  What platform are you building on?
>
> There are two ways of solving it that I can see:
>
>  1) Increase the version number of GLib required by pcb.  (Add a check
>     into the autotools stuff for this.)
>
>  2) Rewrite to support older glib version.  This can be combined with
>     the use of the GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED [1] #define to ensure that
>     it doesn't use any newer features.

fwiw I'd vote for option 1 here.  Rewriting things to keep up with
gtk3 is one (painful) think and we may not want to do that, but at
some point bumping the requirements for libraries that don't require
rewrite to use makes sense

Britton

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