Re: Talking about the GUI
Ronald Bultje <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.multimedia.media-api |
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Hi Steve, On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:49, Steve Lhomme wrote: > "The files included in these zip archives are not compatible with, or > drop-in replacements for, the stuff used in the GIMP for Windows from > December 2000." You're mis-reading this. Gtk-1.2/Glib-1.2 were used as backend for GIMP-1.2, and thus, glib/gtk were ported to Win32 so GIMP could be used by win32 folks. This was 2000 (and before). 1-2 years ago, Glib-2.0 was released. Glib-2.0 was designed from the start with win32 compatibility in mind, so it never had to be ported. Even early betas ran fine under it. Same goes for Gtk-2.0. Both are used as backend for GIMP-1.3 (which will eventually be GIMP-2.0). The comment means that the files included in those packages (2.0) are not compatible with the files included in glib-/gtk-1.2. That's why they can be installed together (versioned libraries). The packages aren't 3 years old. Rather, glib-/gtk-2.2.3 was released only months ago. Ronald -- Ronald Bultje <[email protected]> Linux Video/Multimedia developer