On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:37:36AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:34:02AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:12:42AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > I just noticed that 'gnucash' depends on 'guile-g-wrap', which in turn > >> > depends on 'libglib1.2'. Is there anything available there not yet in > >> > 'libglib2.0' or has 'guile-g-wrap' not ported yet? > >> > > >> IIRC, there is currently an effort under way to eliminate all the gtk1.2 > >> and related dependencies from gnucash. It appears that the transition > >> is not yet complete. > > > > AFAIK, from lurking in gnucash-devel and -user, that conversion was > > completed with the release of gnucash 2.0. That is gnucash has > > completed its gtk2 port. They (gnucash) however, do not maintain > > guile-g-wrap and can't be responsible for the dependencies of their > > dependencies... heh. > > Doesn't it cause segfaults if gnucash is linked (directly or indirectly) > against two different ABI versions of libglib? Or does glib use symbol > versioning to prevent that?
well, since gnucash runs, it doesn't... they use guile-g-wrap to interface guile reports and scripts into gnucash (which is written in C). Perhaps that is enough of a seperation that it doesn't matter? IANA gnucash developer, so you'd do better to ask them, to Thomas Bushnell, the debian maintainer. A
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