[Pidgin] #8499: Pidgin crashed by using Gtk2 module in an experimental perl plugin

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#8499: Pidgin crashed by using Gtk2 module in an experimental perl plugin
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 Reporter:  linleno             |        Owner:         
     Type:  defect              |       Status:  closed 
Milestone:                      |    Component:  plugins
  Version:  2.5.4               |   Resolution:  cantfix
 Keywords:  gtk2, plugin, perl  |  
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Changes (by darkrain42):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => cantfix


Comment:

 This is crashing because "use Gtk2 '-init'" is trying to init Gtk+, which
 is bad both because it's already initted *and* because one of its steps is
 to register a log handler for glog messages. When an assertion fails (in
 this case "purple_value_get_type(value) == PURPLE_TYPE_STRING"), the wrong
 log handler is triggered, and perl chokes on it.

 There's nothing we can do about this, though I don't know enough of perl's
 internals to know why "require" would work where "use" wouldn't.

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