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0 pointsrdsubhas5y ago0 comments

That's really weird to hear. If you build an app with GTK3 today, it's still going to work for 10 years. It's compiled into the application, it's not a runtime API. Even if you upgrade GNOME to some futuristic 10 year version, the GTK3 compiled app will just continue to work fine.

The parent thread is comparing a runtime API (Win32) with a compile-time library (GTK).

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seba_dos15y ago

As a case in point, I just played with an unmodified GTK2 mapping app (FoxtrotGPS) from Openmoko times (2008) on my Librem 5 phone running modern Wayland shell (phosh). Wasn't crisp because GTK2 doesn't support hidpi, and touch support could be better, but worked very well otherwise.

madhadron5y ago

If I build a static binary for each platform I want to release it on and we don't have another a.out to elf transition... Oh, and building it will end up needing a special environment as opposed to the stock JDK.

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