[sylpheed:35069] Re: GTK+ for Windows (was Re: Re: Request: Make dragging and dropping message(s) out of Sylpheed window save them as EML file(s).)

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:57:09 +0000 (GMT)
pn361529 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> >
> > I really want to upgrade to the latest version, but I cannot until it
> > is solved.
> 
> if the issue you described is also true for version 2.24.8 (?), did you
> file a bug for it on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ then?

Not yet.

> However, at least according to this:
> 
> "GTK+ 2.24, which is the final stable release of GTK+ 2.x"
> http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.3/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html#id1291440
> 
> it seems like GTK+ 2.24.X would be the last release of GTK+ 2 because
> now there is the new GTK+ 3.
> 
> So, out of curiosity, are you already migrating Sylpheed to GTK+ 3 ;)?

Porting to GTK+ 3 requires all deprecated things to be discarded, so it
needs some time.

> Seems like GTK+ 3 for Windows would improve as well:
> 
> "* Win32 improvements:
>   - Many fixes, making this the first version of GTK+ 3 that
>     works well on Windows"
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/3.3/gtk+-3.3.4.news

Interesting.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>