[wx-dev] [wxGTK] Old apps with newer GTK2 libs.

[Stefan.Neis at t-online.de]

> Glad to see you found my patch :)

Thanks for having made it (and especially for having written on the
mailing list about it - I vaguely remembered having read about that
issue which speeded up debuging quite a bit, once I got close enough
to the root of the problem...)

> Like this:
> G_SLICE=always-malloc ./minimal

Interesting - thanks for the hint ...

> I wonder why aren't distributions carrying that patch.. 

Actually I'm thinking/talking of distributing binaries with
statically linked wx (so you only have to rely on the
"low level system libraries" (aka GTK2) to be correctly
installed on the user's box, not on even less frequently
needed libs).
And in that case, it's obviously my job to incorporate
the suitable fix. I just think that that's a problem which
possibly other people are going to have as well...

> Maybe we should have a process to notify relevant distributor
> packagers of things like this and ask them to include future occasions
> similar to this?

See above, I don't think it's only relevant for distributors, but
also for developers - in fact, maybe even more so, as distributors
tend to package up-to-date versions of their apps, so are less likely
to be faced with problems in outdated library versions. 

         Regards,
                  Stefan