[Users] building against GTK 3 fails regarding a quicksearch issue

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 18:14:00 +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 16:42:52 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: 
>> ok, now I understand my mistake [1]. The latest Claws gtk2 version is
>> 3.17, but the current Claws gtk3 version is 3.16.
>> 
>> Is all the Claws data, including all the POP accounts compatible, if
>> I downgrade from Claws gtk2 version 3.17.0 and 3.17.1, to Claws gtk3
>> version 3.16.0?  
>
>It's not really a downgrade, the code in gtk3 branch is kept up to date
>with the master branch (sometimes with a few days of delay, depending
>on how busy I am). So you can use the same config for each. I switch
>between gtk2 and gtk3 versions sometimes several times per day,
>depending on what I happen to be working on and testing at the
>moment. :) I don't think we will need to break config compatibility
>between the two versions for a good while - in fact, we try not to.
>
>You are seeing version "3.16.0gitXXX", because for git builds, the
>version string is generated from last release tag in that branch, plus
>number of commits in the branch since that tag. And since tag names
>have to be unique across the entire repository, and not just the
>branch, we can't have the same release tags both in master, and in gtk3
>branch.
>
>I admit that it is a rather strange situation, which will definitely
>need to be resolved sometimes in the future, but while the gtk3 branch
>is still under development, nobody is really bothered about it. :)

Thank you Andrej :).