[Mono-devel-list] Beta1 preview.

[Mike Kestner]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 21:33, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> > Ultimately the configure.in in gkt-sharp needs to be fixed slightly to
> > detect versions a bit better.
> 
> Ah, this is a good observation, I ran into this on the MacOS X as well,
> but I did not look into the issue like you did.
> 
> The problem is that the versions are in fact hardcoded for each version
> of GtkHTML.  Do you have any suggestions on how to pick those versions
> in an OS independent fashion?

The problem is that we bind a particular version of an API.  In this
case, we bind .so.2, as exposed by gtkhtml-3.0.8.  Since gtkhtml-3.0.10
has apparently *removed* API in order to get its so version up to .4,
somebody would have to actively audit the API to determine if anything
was removed that we are exposing through the binding.

Hence the need to bind a particular so.x version and not autodetect what
version is installed on the machine at build time.

We don't bind much of gtkhtml in gtkhtml-sharp, only like 7 files, so it
may be reasonable to do this.  Although at this point I'm starting to
question whether we should have any non-platform libs in the official
binding, since we can't expect any stability and packaging is going to
be an ongoing nightmare of workaround hacks.

-- 
Mike Kestner <mkestner at ximian.com>