Re: GNOME 2.12 is slated to be our worst release -- ever!

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:36 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 9/6/05, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> wrote:
> 
> > I can do another GTK+ release if you want, but probably not before
> > tomorrow.
> 
> I just re-read the bug and noticed that I missed how the first of the
> two gtk+ patches was made earlier and is in the tarball releases; I'm
> hoping that was enough to prevent the crashes people were seeing. 
> It'd be nicer if we had more comments in the bug and could see if
> anyone had duplicated it later, but, of course, bug-buddy emails
> haven't gotten through for the last two weeks or so (really bad timing
> for that to happen... *sigh*) which makes this hard to tell.
> 
> Since a release tomorrow would not give us much time for testing,
> let's just go with gtk+-2.8.3 and guess (hope?) that Alex's workaround
> isn't necessary.
> 

With 2.8.3 everybody should see warnings about base_path being NULL, but
the crash problem should be language-specific and only affect ro.

Matthias