Re: 1.3.10 release candidates

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> writes:

> Owen Taylor writes:
>  > I'd be especially interested to know if these are even close
>  > to working on the various Windows platforms, and if not,
>  > how we can improve that for future versions.
> 
> With a couple of minor fixes, mainly to the makefile.mingw(.in) and
> .msc(.in) files, (already committed), GLib builds cleanly
> out-of-the-tarball on Windows with gcc (mingw) and MSVC. The tests
> also work, more or less, as well as they usually have.

I should redist the GLib tarball then to get these fixes, then?
 
> As for GTK, I haven't yet tested. Probably might not even build on
> Windows currently. Will have to wait for the weekend.

OK, we'll make building GTK+ on Win32 something for the next release.
 
> Should I commit the patches for autoconfiscated build of GTK on Win32
> (and retire the makefile.mingw stuff)? I guess this might alienate
> some people who have been able to build GTK+ using the
> makefile.mingws, but might feel auto*/configure/libtool is way over
> their head. OTOH, people used to these tools from Unix won't mind.

It's really your call; I don't have sufficient information to
make this decision. The less we can use separate manually 
updated tarballs, the better, I think.

Regards,
                                        Owen