Hello all,
according this bug that bulia mentionen I wrote to the gtk mailing list and got so far 1 answer through the mailing list.
Pls. read that they state Win98 as a "obsolte os where apperantly no developer is interested anymore." I dont know wether this is the voice of the whole gtk devel group or yust this one person.
So what is our plan ?
Adib. -----Original Message----- From: Hans Breuer [mailto:hans@...1020...] Sent: Mon 10/3/2005 23:40 To: Taraben, Adib Cc: GTK Devel List Subject: Re: (gtk) bug and win98
On 03.10.2005 22:44, Adib Taraben wrote:
Hello gtk-team,
Inkscape is a SVG vector graphics editor that uses gtk and gtkmm. Currently with the 2.8 libs there is a problem starting on win98. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316878
Is it possible from you guys to investigate in this bug and find out wether it is a real gtk bug or not?
No need to investigate. Cairo - which gtk+-2.8 depends on - is known not to work on win32. This is due to using only the unicode APIs for win32 font access. This API does not work on win9x.
Inkscape will release a new version the next weeks and it would be good (I think) to ship the win32 version with gtk 2.8. Gtk 2.6 is known to work also on win98.
If they are *really* interested in win9x support patches to http://cvs.cairographics.org/cairo/src/cairo-win32-font.c would probably be accepted. Though there may as well be other issues with running gtk+ on an obsolte os where apperantly no developer is interested anymore.
Hans
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