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@...1021....]
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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