On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> I'd like to bump the minimum required glib2 for the 2.3.x series to 2.12. The
> reason is that I'm trying to solve a bug with database passwords that contain
> ':' characters. This interferes with the code that uses ':' as separator for
> the database parameters.
>
> My solution would be to encode the password in base64 before saving it and to
> decode it when required.
>
> However, the base64 glib functions only appear in 2.12.
>
> I think this bump shouldn't be any problem, because all distributions we care
> about have at least this version.
> * The distro with the oldest glib version is (as always) RHEL5. It currently
> ships 2.12.3. Debian Lenny (the oldest non-EOLed-Debian) comes with 2.16.x.
> All others are more recent.
> * The windows build uses 2.22
> * Fink carries 2.20, MacPorts 2.22, I can't immediatly find what John uses
> for
> his MacOSX builds, but I'm pretty confident it's more recent than 2.12.
>
> So in practise it won't affect any of the targeted platforms, yet allows
> 1. the use of the base64 functions
> 2. a cleanup of several HAVE_GLIB_2_{8,12} conditionals that are never
> triggered anyway.
>
> As usual, the question: any objections ?
John uses glib 2.22 for OSX. You can see everything I use in the jhbuild
modulesets at http://github.com/jralls/gtk-osx-build and
http://github.com/jralls/gnucash-on-osx (gtk-osx-build/modulesets-stable for
production use; there's only one gnucash moduleset).
I think we need to be worrying more about what Gnome is up to and keeping up
with their changes than with making sure we can run on 5-year-old versions.
Users of the more aggressive distributions are going to be pretty upset in a
year or two if Gnucash won't run on the latest Ubuntu or Mandriva because we
depend on libraries that aren't in Gnome anymore.
Regards,
John Ralls
Regards,
John Ralls
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