Re: [Tracker] [Patch] for older glib support

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Richard Quirk wrote:
> Not sure if this is something that is viable, but apart from Ubuntu
> 6.06, I have opensuse 10 installed on another pc. It has an older
> version of glib (2.8.1) as well as other conifgure-ed libraries.
>
> The attached patch adds a new .h file with a couple of macro wrappers
> (tracker_new, tracker_free) around g_slice* and if the version of glib
> is < 2.10 (which according to the docs is where g_slice was added) then
> uses g_new and g_free. I've limited configure.in to 2.8.1 since that is
> the version used in Suse 10 and don't know if it'd work with older glibs.
>
> The changes are not extensive and the more people that can compile
> successfully the merrier, even if they aren't perhaps on the cutting
> edge. But as I say, feel free to tell me to get lost if this is not
> something that anyone'd want to maintain.

I dont want to tell you to get lost but supporting older or ancient 
systems is probably not going to be worthwhile with the latest or future 
version of tracker . A lot of new code is now using g_slice stuff etc so 
you are going to have no option but to upgrade your OS if you want to 
run the latest and greatest software

tracker-0.0.4 does not use that so it might be more appropriate to use 
that instead on the older machine if upgrading is out of the question?


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