Proposed changes for Pidgin 2.7.0

Ka-Hing Cheung khc at hxbc.us
Tue Jul 14 22:59:30 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 05:35 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> g_timeout_add_seconds was introduced for a reason, not just to
> unburden programmers from the hassle of thinking in milliseconds. So,
> in order to properly use g_timeout_add_seconds, you of course need a
> GLib version that supports that function, otherwise there's no
> advantage of using purple_timeout_add_seconds over purple_timeout_add.

I am aware of that, but that has nothing to do with choosing a minimum
glib/gtk version. Otherwise we can also say libpurple will require a
tickless kernel, which is a pretty odd thing to say.

-khc





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