Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Make GTK+ 2.6 the minimum required GTK version for WS(or even higher)?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Broman wrote:
> Hi,
> When converting the clist in rtp_analysis.c to a gtk_list_store it 
> turned out that to get acceptable performance functions from GTK+ 2.6 
> was needed.
>
> As Stephen Fisher pointed out:
>
>  > My initial fix to the problem Anders brought up requires GTK+ 2.6 or 
> later (it is wrapped in a GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,6,0)). 
>
>  > Right now, we have nineteen GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,6,0) checks in the 
> code.  GTK+ 2.6.0 is dated Dec 16 2004 on _ftp.gtk.org_ 
> <file://ftp.gtk.org>.
>
>  > I think it's reasonable to expect a GTK newer than 5+ years old.

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> So I realy think that we sould go for a more modern GTK+ version with  
> Wireshark 1.2 ( Minimum 2.6), from above 2.12 might be the right choice. 
> On Windows we are using GTK+ 2.14.

A while ago I would have argued to keep support for GTK 2.4 because 
that's what ships with Solaris 10 which is a) likely to be around for a 
while and b) Sun doesn't update it the way Linux distributions do, but 
I've been having unpleasant enough experiences with that version (just 
GUI quirks/weirdness when using Wireshark) I no longer think keeping 
support for 2.4 is such a good thing.