Re: 1.3.10 release candidates

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 17:19 25.10.01 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
>
>I've just put up candidate tarballs for the 1.3.10 release in:
> 
> ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/testing/
>
>I'd appreciate it if people would try compiling these and send
>reports of the success, or failure, with details of:
>
> - Operating system
> - Version
> - Compiler
>
>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.
>
I just compiled and partly tested the cvs build of Gtk+.
With the usual tweaking (.def file updating, adapting the
makefiles) it almost works.

My compiler is msvc 5.0, home platform Win98. My educated
guess is that NT (4, 2K) builds and runs should work as well, 
because Win98 has the more limitations.

Unfortunately my 'private patch' gets larger with every commit.

This is partly because of pending / undecided patches in
bugzilla, mainly the Gtk<Plug/Socket> stuff.
		http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58541

But my main concern is still the 'g-lib renaming and DIR emulation'
discussed in:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-October/msg00021.html
where I still think most of my arguments are valid and deserve to
be discussed. The axiom 'let's do it like libtool' appears to be
a little weak to me.
(BTW: the glib renaming broke the circular dependency to the
 prebuilt gnu-intl.dll)

As said before in the referenced mail:
"I would like to here other opinions on the renaming of gtk libs
and the inclusion of a g_<open|read|rewind|close>dir emulation."

Thanks in advance,
        Hans

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