[Rd] Rgnome depends on obsolete components libglade/libxml (PR#8247)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk writes:
> 
> 
>>Full_Name: Hin-Tak Leung
>>Version: R 2.2.0
>>OS: x86 linux
>>Submission from: (NULL) (131.111.126.242)
>>
>>
>>Rgnome depends libglade 0.x and libxml 1.x .
>>
>>They are no longer shipped with Redhat EL4.
>>(I know they are still in fedora core 4).
>>
>>Just a wish-list.
> 
> 
> But what is the wish? 
> 
> You mean get it upgraded to xml2 and glade2? Patches would likely be
> accepted... 
> 

:-). libglade went from 0.17 to 1.99 then 2.x, but the current Rgnome 
code depends on some of <0.17-specific stuff.

Already tried against libglade 2 - not trivial. It probably also 
requires changing to gtk2 also...

Just like to have it in the distant TODO list, and not forgotten...

Hin-Tak Leung