Re: Gnome2::Wnck 0.05

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Thierry Vignaud said:
> Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> writes:
>
> > > > * Make sure we work with libwnck 2.6.3, which introduces an
> > > >   incompatible API change -- in a stable release.
> > >
> > > some checks are done against version 2.6.3 vs 2.6.2.
> > > however, the build will fail with libwnck-2.6.2.1.
> > >
> > > i'd to apply the following patch in order to successfully build
> > > this package:
> >
> > Gar, that sucks.  I didn't know there was a 2.6.2.1.  2.6.2 still
> > has the old version of wnck_window_close,

this means that wnck is rather broken for changing API in a patchlevel
release.  i would vote for considering 2.6.2.1 to be 2.6.3, unless you want to
define an extra macro, e.g., HEY_I_AM_BROKEN.

> > and our version checking
> > macros don't support four-part version numbers.  Any advice on how
> > to proceed?
>
> maybe doing extra checking with autoconf ?
> the pkgconfig file has a "Version: 2.6.2.1" field.

ExtUtils::PkgConfig::modversion() should return 2.6.2.1 in that case.



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