Re: DEBATE: glib, libgsf in main build.

Alan Horkan wrote:

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>>Assuming glib is required for AbiWord, the best way to go is to install
>>glib with AbiWord on Windows (put it in the installer), do not rely on
>>any existing version, thus there are no issues of mismatched libs due to
>>another application upgrading/downgrading glib. The other issue is you
>>could loose Win95 support, possibly also older/lower end Win XX users,
>>not sure as the requirements are geared more towards gimp/gtk and not
>>glib in particular (which are probably less, so may still work on 95).
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>as far as I know the gimp is no longer provided for windows 9X due to lack
>of manpower
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>there are also issue with gtk 2.8 using cairo and the work needed for 9x
>has not been done there either
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>I'm not sure how this effects glib maintainance but I figure if gimp and
>gtk 2.8 are not currently being maintained for windows 9x then glib is
>probably not getting much testing on windows 9x anymore (if at all)
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>- Alan
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There's a simple way to see if glib (in the version I use) works on
Win9x. Somebody should try the import/export plugins (preferably) or
the math plugin (which I am fairly certain works) on Win9x. The DLL
itself is not terribly large, maybe 200-500k or so (I can't recall
exactly offhand).

I'd be very careful when considering reducing support for Win9x, however.

Ryan
Received on Wed Oct 19 20:16:42 2005