Re: Gtk2/Glib 0.96

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 01:20  AM, James Curbo wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 00:08, muppet wrote:
> > however, Gtk2 0.97 will probably depend on Glib 0.97.
>
> All righty. If those 0.97 changes go through, we'll have to update
> debian/control, specifically:
<snip>

duly noted.


> which makes me think, I should investigate the library dependencies for
> all the modules more closely; for instance, will glib/gtk 2.0 work or 
> do
> we require 2.2?

officially, gtk2-perl requires gtk+ >= 2.0.0.

we take whatever pkg-config finds for gtk+-2.0.  the 2.x series is 
supposed to remain binary compatible, and the 2.0 in the pkgconfig name 
actually refers to the api version, not the library version.  the 
gtk2-perl code uses the versioning tools provided by gtk to enable the 
right stuff when gtk+ >= 2.2.0 is present.

this makes me wonder, though, what happens if you change the installed 
version of gtk+ after compiling gtk2-perl.

perl usually does lazy loading at runtime, but make test forces all 
symbols to resolve at load, which catches dangling symbols and dupes 
and such.  we'd have to undo that in order to have 2.2.x functions 
always available in the binaries, and even that wouldn't work on all 
platforms.  ick.