Re: RFC version issues

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:52, Brett Kosinski wrote:
> > * Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com> [2004-01-23 05:18]:
> > > 2) add two new functions, for example check_bound_version and
> > > get_bound_version_info. these would return the versions Gtk2
> > > was compiled against and therefore what is available to the
> > > app.
> >
> > Sounds like the only logical option.
>
> I would also say that it might be valuable if Gtk2-Perl emitted a runtime
> warning indicating a mismatch between the version of Gtk compiled against
> versus the version of Gtk detected at run-time, as this kind of scenario
> strikes me as predominantly a user error (ie, broken dependencies between
> packages).

this would actually be a pretty common case. install gtk2-perl, upgrade
gtk+ for some c app. that doesn't mean that we couldn't warn there, but
it really isn't a user error. if they have no apps that require newer
gtk2-perl, then there's no (undeniable) reason for them to have to
upgrade.

-r,