Re: anything out there to easily test an app against many glib/gtk combinations?

["Michael R. Head" <burner suppressingfire org>]

Hi Britton!

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 09:33 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> I have a small tool I'm about to release, and I'd like to check and see
> if it works correctly at least for the glib/gtk combinations that
> distributions have shipped recently.
>
> Is there anything out there that might help to set up a big test matrix
> of glib/gtk builds?  Is there any record of which combinations have gone
> into distribution releases?

One thing that might help here is distrowatch. On each distro's page,
they track the versions of all the major packages for each particular
release.

If you needed something automated, it probably wouldn't be to hard to
suck down the HTML and html-grep out the sections for the components
you're interested in.

For example, the Ubuntu distrowatch page has a section like so:
<tr>
    <th><a title="GTK+: a multi-platform toolkit for creating GUIs
" href="http://www.gtk.org/";>gtk+</a> (<a 
href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.14/gtk+-2.14.1.tar.bz2";>2.14.1</a>)</th>
    <td class="Current">2.14.1</td>
    <td>2.12.9</td>
    <td>2.12.0</td>
<td>2.10.11</td>
    <td>2.10.6</td>
    <td>2.8.17</td>
    <td>2.8.6</td>
    <td>2.6.4</td>
    <td>2.4.9</td>
<th><a title="GTK+: a multi-platform toolkit for creating GUIs
" href="http://www.gtk.org/";>gtk+</a> (<a 
href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.14/gtk+-2.14.1.tar.bz2";>2.14.1</a>)</th>
  </tr>

Each line refers to each release, which can be pulled from another section of the HTML.

mike

> Thanks,
> Britton

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Michael R. Head <burner suppressingfire org>
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