Re: [platform-dev] [platform-swt-dev] SWT-GTK3 bugs for 4.9

[Eric Williams <ericwill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On 06/01/2018 11:16 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Robert Zenz <robert.zenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:robert.zenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     So completely dropping GTK+2 support
>     will have an impact on these environments which are still supported.
>
>
> I guess Eclipse Project would announce that Ubuntu 16.04 is not 
> supported by the project team anymore (ie bug specific to Ubuntu 16.04 
> would be ignored by the team). 

In practice, GTK3 bugs specific to Ubuntu 16.04 are already ignored -- 
we will accept patches for them but otherwise no time is spent on these 
issues.

The reason is that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS uses GTK3.18 which has been obsolete 
for 3 years. There is no point in fixing bugs that only affect this GTK3 
version, as the final and stable release of GTK3 is 3.22. Furthermore 
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the only distro that uses this GTK3 version, even 
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has GTK3.22 and an up-to-date GNOME stack.

That said: issues that are reproducible on GTK3.22 are always a 
priority, and any such bugs should be filed/pointed out ASAP.


Thanks,

--
Eric Williams
Software Engineer - Eclipse/SWT Team
Red Hat