Re: (gtk) bug and win98

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 03.10.2005 22:44, Adib Taraben wrote:
> Hello gtk-team,
>
> Inkscape is a SVG vector graphics editor that uses gtk and gtkmm.
> Currently with the 2.8 libs there is a problem starting on win98.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316878
>
> Is it possible from you guys to investigate in this bug and find out 
> wether it is a real gtk bug or not?
No need to investigate. Cairo - which gtk+-2.8 depends on - is known not
to work on win32. This is due to using only the unicode APIs for win32
font access. This API does not work on win9x.

> Inkscape will release a new version the next weeks and it would be good 
> (I think) to ship the win32 version with gtk 2.8. Gtk 2.6 is known to 
> work also on win98.
If they are *really* interested in win9x support patches to
http://cvs.cairographics.org/cairo/src/cairo-win32-font.c would probably
be accepted. Though there may as well be other issues with running gtk+ on
an obsolte os where apperantly no developer is interested anymore.

	Hans

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