Re: Gtk 2.10 (DirectFB) progress report - update

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it>]

Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > i did some testing today compiling gtk+ from CVS HEAD against 
> > libcairo-directfb2 (1.2.4-1) and libdirectfb-0.9-25 (0.9.25.1-3) and it 
> > turns out that
> >
> > > - a fresher DirectFB than the latest release (0.9.25.1); I hope the
> > >  DirectFB maintainer has the time to prepare a snapshot for
> > >  experimental as requested in Debian #383238
> >
> > this is no longer a problem, as GTK+ >= 2.10.2 selectively excludes from 
> > compilation all the code that needs DFB >= 0.9.26 to work (minimum 
> > requirement is now DFB 0.9.24)
>
>
>  Yes, actually I continued working on Gtk 2.10.0 in our SVN but
>  backported the needed delta from Gtk's CVS back then (this was before
>  the relevant Gtk release).  This is in pkg-gnome's SVN since 10 days or
>  so.

The GDKDFB backend found in GTK+ 2.10.2 contains many very important 
enhancements and fixes Mike Emmel introduced Fri Aug 11, which are not 
found in earlier (2.10.0, 2.10.1) GTK+ relases.
I strongly suggest to skip GTK+ 2.10.0 and 2.10.1 and jump directly to 
GTK+ 2.10.2.

<snip/>

> > > - to rebuild Cairo against the new DirectFB which changes SONAME, I
> > >  hope an upload to experimental will be possible once DirectFB is
> > >  uploaded but I've not requested that yet
> >
> > current cairo-directfb depends from DFB 0.9.25, so i guess this is solved ?
>
>
>  Correct, this was only required because of the first point.

cool! :)

Attilio