Re: [platform-swt-dev] Luna SWT plan

[Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We have not done any planning yet. Things
are kind of slow with summer vacations, etc.

Technically SWT already increased its
minimum GTK version to 2.10, since the native libraries are compiled on
RedHat 5.  At a minimum, we should update our version check in Display
and remove any pre 2.10 code in Luna.

Before we flip the GTK 3 flag by default,
we need to make sure the port is stable. I believe there are still some
rough areas specially on the latest distros. Anyways, work on GTK 3 should
continue on this cycle and hopefully we can flip it.  We appreciate
the community assistance in this area.

SWT source level and BREE  is 1.3,
target level is 1.1.  I am actually very proud of that. It means SWT
can run on basically any JDK out there (not counting the SWT_AWT bridge
support of course).   But  I am not sure how useful this is anymore
and if there is anyone that actually cares about it.   Open to opinions
on this.  Which features of Java-1.5 would we take advantage of?

Silenio



From:      
 Aleksandar Kurtakov
<akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Eclipse Platform
SWT component developers list." <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date:      
 07/11/2013 10:12 AM
Subject:    
   [platform-swt-dev]
Luna SWT plan
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Hi everyone, 
Is there some plan for Luna SWT already?
Few questions that bother me are:
* What will be the minimum GTK version supported? It's 2.6 now but I hope
we are going to phase out GTK 2.x each year a bit aka make it clear that
e.g. 2.8/2.10 will be the minimum supported version. Moving to 2.10 will
allow few enhancements like use GtkButton built-in image support, Link
on top GtkLinkButton and significant simplification in areas like printing
and tray. Probably there are others but this is just what I spotted from
quick look. I know I can do it now with dynamic checks for version but
this just makes the code harder to debug plus the additional maintenance
cost of different code paths. What do you think?
* Is SWT going to follow the majority of projects to move to Java-1.5 BREE
as a min version? 
* Are there any plans for flipping the flag from GTK 2 to GTK 3 by default?

I know it's mostly GTK stuff but this is my area.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

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