Re: What version is in Mandrake 9.2?

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandrakesoft com>]

"Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com> writes:

> > 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.

for now, we still rely on patched gtk2-perl catching exceptions,
unwind callstack and croak exception back