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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