On Tuesday 06 May 2008 17:01:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Graham Cobb wrote: > > More and more applications cannot be built for Maemo just > > because they use features in glib introduced after 2.12.12. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Personally I consider this a mistake of those programs. And I also > > believe you're wrong. > > Dave Neary wrote: > > For information, the new APIs added in glib between 2.12.x > > and 2.16.x are:
In the case of Opensync the latest problem wasn't gio or, indeed, anything that Dave listed. It was one of the hundreds of other small changes (new functions within existing features). Glib adds many new functions at every release and developers make use of them. My issue isn't just with glib, by the way, the same problem exists for all libraries. In fact the previous out of date system library issue I had to deal with was a new entry point in libxml2. In this case I had to take (most of, but not quite all) the entire module from the upstream source and conditionally include it into my Opensync patches. A few days work I could have done without (maybe I could have fixed a GPE bug in that time instead). I forget what the one before was -- I think it was glib again but it might not even have been in Opensync. The general principle is that Nokia presumably re-test (not change, but test) all Nokia-supplied applications on every OS update, including point releases. So, if they are doing that, I would ask them to do that retest using the latest versions of all system libraries. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
