Re: Meld 1.7.2 released

[Mark Mikofski <bwanamarko yahoo com>]

> > >   I have been using this setup for a long time now, it is what Christoph 

> >  explicitly
> > >   recommends [1], "PyGTK [2] is a wrapper for the GTK+ [3] library. 
>
> >  Requires
> > >   the GTK+ 2.22 [4] runtime."
> >
> >  For the record, these are *not* the all-in-one installers. See here:
> >      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.24/
> >
> > >   **And it works _fine_ with meld-1.6.1.** It also works fine with 
> Geany. But 
> >  the
> > >   version of gtk is old, 2.22, and the corresponding gnome libraries are 
> also
> > >   old, so maybe that's the culprit?
> >
> >  Well... sort of. Reading your linked bug, it looks like this bug will
> >  only (?) happen with GTK+ 2.22.x. Earlier versions have the stock icon
> >  for missing, and later versions fixed the lookup crash.
> >
> > >       Gtk:ERROR:gtkrecentmanager.c:1942:get_icon_fallback: assertion 
> failed: 
> >  (retval != NULL)
> >
> >  This looks like we can blame the recent files feature, probably due to
> >  it not being able to find the icon-name "meld" when looking up
> >  recently used files for menu construction. This may be bad mime XML
> >  installation, or something else. However, I don't know what, if
> >  anything, can sensibly be done about this on our end.
> >
> >  cheers,
> >  Kai

Thanks Kai. I'll either stick with the 32-bit version (w/ Keegan's 
installer), or just keep using meld-1.6.1 since it works great. Thanks for all 
your hard work!

@Keegan
- did you grab the png icon for the version control?
- do you have pygtksourceview included in the installer?
- you can get gnu patch win32 binary from gnuwin here:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm
it is a standalone binary

But unfortunately there is some conflict with UAC on >windows 7; see this:
http://math.nist.gov/oommf/software-patchsets/patch_on_Windows7.html

If you can get the line numbers, syntax highlighting and version control working with meld (any-version) then 
I will definitely switch to you installer and spread the word.


Thanks,
Mark Mikofski
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