Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:07:10 -0700
On 3/15/18 4:10 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14 March 2018 at 20:41, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I plan on releasing 2.5.1 tomorrow and I've tentatively scheduled
>     creating the 2.6 branch on April 2, followed by 2.6.0 on April 18.
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
> Should we remove GTK+ options from the Windows (and macOS?) installers for
> 2.6, considering we haven't built that version for a while?

I was assuming that there were enough people still using the GTK+ UI on Windows to warrant keeping it in 2.6. If that's not the case I have no objections to removing it. The macOS installer only ships with one UI and we switched from GTK+ in 1.12 to Qt in 2.0. If you still use the GTK+ UI, now is probably a good time to speak up. :)

BTW, Fedora at least is working on dropping their wireshark-gtk package:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Drop_Legacy_GTK+_GUI_in_wireshark