--- Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 00:24 -0800, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > > [really impressive list of bugs deleted]. > > > > As an end gtk+ user I just want to know which of the two > > gtk+2.8.20 <-> 2.10.7 is less buggy. > > Indeed 2.10.7. The impressive list of bugs you saw has only been fixed > in 2.10.7. Another set fixed in 2.10.6. Same for 2.10.5, ... None of > them fixed in 2.8.x. > > This idea of thinking about newer series as buggier versions is > fundamentally bogus. The way you should be thinking about 2.10 is 2.8 > plus some new functionality plus lots of bug fixes. It typically is the > case that if you don't use the new functionality, it's just added value, > not many bugs introduced, etc. Gtk+ 2.6 vs 2.6 was of course different, > because of moving to cairo. > > > And which of them has less memory leaks. > > Is Gtk+ known for being leaky? 2.10 has more fixes than 2.8, so for the > same usage, it should be 2.10 that doesn't have more memory leaks. > > > Thanks, > > Sergei. > > My 0.02 CAD > -- > behdad > http://behdad.org/ > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little > Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 > This all is beginning to sound "interesting". My memory, of course, is not getting better as years go by, but it still remembers some peculiar things. OK, on the official gtk site one can read: http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN703 : " 5.28. Why does GTK+/GLib leak memory? It doesn't. ... ". I read this in the times of, I think, gtk+-2.8.18, and it is still there. So are there or there are no memory leaks in gtk+-2.8.20 ? Did gtk+2.10.* introduce more or less memory leaks ? If one reads on http://www.gtk.org about absence of memory leaks, should he/she consider this to be cheap propaganda at best ? Or the above claim should be reformulated as: * for gtk+2.8.20 there are no known to developers occurences of memory leaks; * gtk+2.10.* is effectively a developmnet release, so expect memory leaks and stay away from it for production code. I am asking these particular questions because of the 387170 Fairly large leak in gtk+ 360350 leak in gtk_radio_button_focus 362439 gtkicontheme::pixbuf_supports_svg leaks GList 364514 gtk leaks GDI objects on the win32 classic look and feel 364868 GDI resource leak in GtkStatusIcon on win32 370395 leak in gtk_rc_parse_icon_source 382314 gtkpagesetup leaks when setting new paper size 389194 mem leaks in gtkpagesetupunixdialog 348108 Refleaks in gtk-demo bugs mentioned in the original announcement of gtk+2.10.7. FWIW, 'konqueror' WEB browser doesn't appear to leak, while gtk+-based Mozilla, Firfox, Seamonkey leak a lot, and I'm not sure whether it's 'Gecko' or gtk+ issue. Regards, Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
