Re: GTK+, & GLIB Questions

[Daniel Campos <daniel campos tiscali es>]

Jim Isom escribió:

> To whom it may concern,
>  
> We received a security issue from Hewlett Packard regarding the 
> version GLIB-1.2.10, & GTK+-1.2.10 (Which we currently have 
> installed), I went to your site and noticed that you now have version 
> 2.6.2 available.  This server that currently has the older version 
> running is very important to my client.
>  
> My question is this can I upgrade to 2.6.2 for both GLIB, & GTK 
> without any disruption to our system and still know that the product 
> will be available for the users that utilize it?  And if not what 
> version can we upgrade to to eliminate the security issue and where 
> would I find the product at?


In fact all major distributions use to install both 1.2 and 2.x versions 
of glib and gtk, as some old (may be unmantained) free software program 
uses gtk+-1.2. Note however, that old programs load gtk+-1.2 and new 
programs load gtk+-2.0 when executed, that is, both the old and the new 
versions of these libraries must be installed in the system, you can not 
remove gtk+-1.2 and just replace it for gtk+-2.0 in the hope that the 
old programs load and work OK with gtk+-2.x, they are not binary compatible.

Regards,

D. Campos


>  
> Please let me know.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jim Isom
>
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