====== Deciding the oldest GTK+ version supported for new Geany Releases ======

This page is to help on deciding what versions of GTK+ stack APIs (ie. GTK+/GLib/GIO/GObject) can be relied upon or removed from Geany code by default (ie. without special wrappers and #ifdef-ing stuff).

**How to contribute to this and the ground rules (//PLEASE READ//):**

  * Add your criteria in as brief and general way as possible as a top-level bullet point.
  * Add your name to the criteria so we know who added it without scouring the wiki page history.
  * List any details/notes about the criteria required to make it clear or explain your reasoning, indented under the criteria as sub-bullet points.
  * If one of the exact criteria you were going to list is already listed, don't repeat it, just add your name and any further details (if applicable).
  * Don't argue/disagree with any existing criteria listed (it's not the place), just add your own criteria/anti-criteria and we can reconcile them later.
  * Don't edit other peoples criteria to suit your own criteria if it's not the exact same thing, if you aren't sure, just add a new criteria and we can merge them later.
  * We aren't looking for specific version numbers here, but rather a general way to decide what is the oldest version Geany is going to support in new versions moving forward.
  * Geany is not a GNOME application, please leave feelings about GNOME at the door, we aren't looking for specific GTK+ versions here (ex. GTK2).
  * This is only related to new Geany versions, it doesn't apply to existing releases/versions.
  * Feel free to edit other non-criteria parts of this page as much as needed to make things more clear, to add any needed ground rules, fix spelling mistakes, etc.

===== Criteria =====


Please add the criteria you **do** think we should use to decide where to peg our oldest supported GTK+ version at:

  * Newest version of official GTK+ bundle for Windows. -codebrainz
    * Unless we want to build our own binaries, we're pretty much stuck with this.
  * Newest version available in common in the latest (or even 2nd to last) releases of a few of the really popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, etc. -codebrainz
    * This covers the widest range of users
    * Allows easier integration and testing of new features for the next release versions.
    * Allows removing old or deprecated cruft without wrapper headers and stuff.

===== Non-Criteria =====

Please add the criteria you **don't** think we should use to decide where to peg our oldest supported GTK+ version at:

  * The lowest common denominator/long-term release distros (ex. RHEL, etc.) -codebrainz
    * Most users likely use the Geany version in their distro repositories.
    * Many corporate/educational users are not allowed to install new versions of software (no admin/root permissions).
    * Those who compile latest Geany release or development version from source can also compile GTK+ stack themselves (ex. using GTK+ tarballs or JHBuild, etc.).
    * We aren't RedHat, their long-term support policies don't necessarily apply to Geany.