----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christophe Fergeau" <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Fabiano Fidêncio" <fabiano@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Fabiano Fidêncio" <fidencio@xxxxxxxxxx>, "virt" <virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 11:02:50 AM > Subject: Re: [PATCH] mingw-spec: Update msitools dependency > > 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. I also would go for #1. I don't think we are faraway from a release and this can be the last one still supporting Windows XP. > > Christophe > _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
