Re: Gtk2/Glib 0.96

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

muppet said:
> this makes me wonder, though, what happens if you change the installed
> version of gtk+ after compiling gtk2-perl.

good news would be that it 'should' continue to work work with the new gtk,
but you wouldn't have the new functions.

> perl usually does lazy loading at runtime, but make test forces all
> symbols to resolve at load, which catches dangling symbols and dupes
> and such.  we'd have to undo that in order to have 2.2.x functions
> always available in the binaries, and even that wouldn't work on all
> platforms.  ick.

we could possibly compile all of the function wrappers in (there would be
warnings) and do some autoloader tricks at runtime (if we can get a version
from gtk at runtime which i'm not sure we can)  on 2.0.x to catch people
trying to use 2.2.x functions with 2.0.x and warn/carp/die. i'm not sure that
it would really be possible and/or a good idea.

-rm