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[Robert Young]

So

I could
1) Try and help update the GTK+-Win32 to GLib 2.0 DLL
2) help fix the current mappings dlls/units.

My guess is that since GLib 2.0 is not supposed to change much in the next
little while and GLib 2.0 seems stable (at least I have not seen my Gimp
crash yet on NT), that support should be moved to GLib 2.0. May I help with
this, if that is the case is anyone in charge of this effort?

Thanks in advance.

Rob



"Michael A. Hess" wrote:

> > > You can't do that. The new Win32 GTK libraries that you indicate
> > > above are the latest versions for Win32. They are interdependent
> > > and require that they maintain the names they currently have. The
> > > only way to use these new libraries is to build a new version of
> > > the GTK unit in the FCL to look for these new library names.
> >
> > :/
> >
> > The ever-present library versioning and naming problems :/
> > What is the logic behind naming it g*k-0.dll if the version is 1.3 ??
> > Probably they don't want these libs in production - so only people
> > compiling everything anew should use these libs ?
> >
> > It means that existing programs cannot enjoy the benefits of newer,
> > fixed libraries ? Nice going  :/  Even Microsoft doesn't do that !
> > (Well, not often ;))
>
> Here is the statement right from the GTK+-Win32 site.
>
> GLib 2.0 has been released. GIMP and GTK+ thus now depend on those
> DLLs. The GLib 2.0 DLL names will not change, even if GLib 2.0.1, 2.0.2
> etc are released, as these releases will be binary compatible. (The
> GLib 1.3.x series were development versions, and thus by definition
> without any promise of binary compaibility, which has meant that each
> version has had differently named DLLs.)
>
> --
> ==== Programming my first best destiny! ====
>
> Michael A. Hess      Miracle Concepts, Inc.
> mhess at miraclec.com   http://www.miraclec.com
>
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