On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 02:10:37AM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > > Okay, this error only happens when using Windows XP machines due to a > GLib "regression"[0], see the bug here: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730352. > > [0]: > Seems like GLib is going to drop support to Windows XP (and GTK already did) > > 20:56 < fidencio> ebassi: about your comment on 730352 ... does it > mean "we don't care about regressions on XP?" > or just "we are not trying to improve anything on XP"? > 20:57 < ebassi> fidencio: Neither :-) > 20:57 < ebassi> fidencio: I said that the regression should be investigated > 20:57 < ebassi> fidencio: And possibly fixed — but we're going to > drop Windows XP everywhere (GTK already > did), so it may not help you much in the longer term. > 20:58 < ebassi> i.e. even if Fan or LRN manage to fix it, it just > delays the inevitable > 21:00 < ebassi> fidencio: You may want to stay with an older > version of GLib, at least for Windows XP builds. > > And here are the links to the discussion threads on gtk-devel-list: > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2014-December/msg00055.html > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2015-April/msg00000.html Which brings the question as to what to do for mingw-virt-viewer. A couple of options come to mind: - drop support for Windows XP and be very explicit about it (ideally we could have Windows version checks in the installer?) - keep support for Windows XP, if we want to keep doing the build using fedora infrastructures, this would require having mingw-gtk-compat/mingw-glib-compat packages corresponding to the last gtk/glib versions with working Windows XP support (I don't know if such packages would be accepted in fedora repos) I have a preference for option #1, but both are fine with me. Christophe
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