Crash in Pidgin and Adium on XMPP MUC Presence

[Daniel Atallah]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 16:27, Daniel Atallah <daniel.atallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:33, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:
>> - GTK+ in Windows crashes on non-BMP UTF-8 charpoints
>> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668154).  Is there
>> anything we can do about this?  It sounds like it might be fixed in
>> new GTK... maybe we just need to bundle the new version?
>
> Sorry, I meant to reply about this sooner, but was waiting until I had
> a chance to evaluate the newer version.
> Unfortunately, I haven't had time to do the evaluation, but I figured
> I should reply anyway.
>
> Between GTK+ 2.20.0 and 2.24.10 (which just came out a couple weeks
> ago), there were a number of showstopper type of breakages that
> prevented us from upgrading without major breakage.
> 2.24.10 is supposed to be as functional as 2.16.6 was, but I haven't
> been able to validate that.
>
> I'll try to make time to get to testing that, but I wouldn't hold up
> the release if everything else is ready.

Good news and bad news.

The good news is that GTK+ 2.24.10 appears to be functional - the
weird window Z-order issues that were present in previous versions
since the client-side windows stuff appear to be gone.

The bad news is that I can still recreate the crash described in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668154
I added some more information to that ticket.

At this point, I'm thinking there's not a lot of reason to upgrade
until this issue is resolved.

-D