On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:28, Mike Frysinger wrote: > last time i recall following the gtk/gtk2 stuff, the idea was that in the > future to move to a gtk/gtk1 situation ... but this was back when Spider > was The Man, so i guess people forgot about that
No, see the whole thread Harald references in his email. > > it should be more the question, if there's anyone supporting > > Gtk1 upstream with regards to security issues etc.. > > and when such a situation arises, the solution may to simply drop the > optional support. such a situation has not arose, so using such > hypothetical examples is meaningless. The problem is that no one is working on the code, so the chances for black hats to find something they can abuse for a long time are to consider. The situation is always given. It's just the question, when and if the good guys get to know about it. Carsten
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