Actually, I was considering something radically different.. If it is possible, it would be good if we could build the entire tree from source ourselves with the cross-compiler (or maybe mingw). Then we could have any configuration we want, and not need to beg & borrow dll's from other people. Does this sound like an idea?
Bob
Kees Cook wrote:
Hey Bob. I was looking at the GTK packaged for Gimp, Ethereal, and Gaim, and was thinking about trying to switch to it (after the 0.41 release). Have you looked at this at all? It looks like it may fix a number of weird problems we've had.
(as long as we're on the list...)
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:25:56PM -0600, Bob Jamison wrote:
Actually, I was considering something radically different.. If it is possible, it would be good if we could build the entire tree from source ourselves with the cross-compiler (or maybe mingw). Then we could have any configuration we want, and not need to beg & borrow dll's from other people. Does this sound like an idea?
Doing it that way clearly gives us an advantage as far as bleeding-edge libs, etc. However, I worry that the overhead in dealing with it is too much pain. Currently, we do work with the shipped shared GTK libs. We just have to build a few extra ones too.
I thought the tree was already totally built "by hand"?
I'm going to experiment more tonight with them, just to see if they really do fix the locale problems. Either way, it would be after the 0.41 release, so maybe I should just wait until that's out the door and bring it up again then.
Kees Cook wrote:
I'm going to experiment more tonight with them, just to see if they really do fix the locale problems. Either way, it would be after the 0.41 release, so maybe I should just wait until that's out the door and bring it up again then.
Test cases should include any characters above those in Cp-1252.
Generally, stuff over \u0800 should do it. Check the listing of Cp-1252 chars to be sure http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT
But things need to behave properly on Win95/98/ME also. It's quite easy to tweak a program to work ok on NT/2K/XP, but hard to get a single binary to work for both.
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