Re: What version is in Mandrake 9.2?

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Chas Owens said:
> Quoting Chas Owens <alas widomaker com>:
> > Does anyone know what version of Gtk2-Perl is going to be in Mandrake
> > 9.2?
>
> I found a package list that seems to say 0.95 for Glib and Gtk2, but no
> mention
> of Gnome2.  Is Gnome2 included in Mandrake 9.2?

Gnome probably wasn't mature enough at that point to be included, as it's just
now become useful since kaffee has been working on it, props to him.

> perl-Glib-0.95-3mdk.i586.rpm          109k Sep 15 09:01
> perl-Gtk2-0.95-6mdk.i586.rpm          809k Aug 28 22:17

a perhaps more important question is whether or not this was their patched
version. as many of you will remember there were some issues involved with
exceptions a while back which lead to a change in behavior and the
Glib->install_exception_handler stuff. prior to that due to the way that some
of the mandrake tools were working (dieing/croaking across main loops) they
had to patch Gtk2-Perl to allow them to do this (without core dumping, but
perhaps with some other issues) in the manner they desired. muppet spent many
a long night thinking about and working on this and those issues are issues no
more because callback's can't really die, which they shouldn't be able  to
anyway, there' just no way to unwind the callstack in C/Glib properly.

this is just a word of warning if they're running with a patched/modified
Gtk2-Perl and if you upgrade the apps that make use of the die/croak in
callbacks those apps may have problems until they're re-done to work with the
new (safer) scheme.

hopefully one of the mandrake guys on the list can give you a better answer,
or prehaps correct me if i'm in err.

-rm