Re: 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes

[Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>]

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From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Stephen Donnelly
Sent: den 15 mars 2018 05:46
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes

On Mar 14, 2018, at 1:41 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:

> > As discussed previously we'll drop support for Qt 4 and GTK+ in the 
> > master branch after master-2.6 is created. Unless there are strong 
> > objections I'd like to bump the minimum GLib version to 2.32.
>
> As a note, Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 is in Maintenance 2 support until late 2020, and only ships Glib 2.28 afaik.
>
> Would this mean no Wireshark 2.6 support for EL6 based Linux distributions?

If I understand correctly 2.6 will still have GTK Qt4 and older Glib, the removal will take place in master(2.7) which 
probably will become 3.0 at release.

> If EL6 support is still desirable, an option might be developing to the Glib 2.32 interface, but providing wrappers 
> (polyfil) for the few bits of Glib used by Wireshark that are different or not available in 2.28.

Stephen

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