On Jan 27, 2016 09:00, "David Cournapeau" <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > The main argument against using centos 5 is GUI-related components, as the old fontconfig/glib (the GTK one, not Gnu libc) are a problem. But those are a tiny minority of what people do with python nowadays, and they require a lot of work to get right.
This is the part that intrigued me :-). Can you elaborate at all on what kind of problems you've encountered with fontconfig and glib? (Well, I can guess at one piece of excitement maybe: that glib is not really vendorable because a process can have only one main loop, and that lives in glib these days for both gtk and Qt, so any packages doing any GUI stuff are required to agree to use the same glib version.) -n
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