Re: The GEL lib (NILS read this!)

[Nils Barth <nbarth@fas.harvard.edu>]

Thus spake Aaron Lehmann:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, George wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:33:52PM +0000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > > What the ...?? The errors come from gtkitementry, a 3rd party widget I am
> > > using. I don't get these errors. Try upgrading your C and C++ compilers
> > > and your GTK library. I know that we require at least gtk 1.2.X, and there
> > > have been some issues with gcc 2.7.2.3 that I have not had time to resolve
> > > - but will look into, code portability is very important to me.
> > 
> > Well you should rename the widget.  Using the gtk namespace for third party
> > widgets is a really bad idea
> 
> Its not mine - its a widget I am using. It is called gtkitementry so I am
> supprised that conflicts arise with gtkentry. And why don't these seem to
> cause any problem with a recent g++?
> 
> I cannot reproduce this program using gcc 2.7.2.3 and a C program that
> used gtkitementry.c. Apparently it is based on GtkEntry and has a bunch of
> static functions in the gtkentry namespace.
> 
> I have run a few simple seds which should rename all of its functions to
> be in its own namespace and commited it. Nils, cvs update and see if it
> works. I will report this bahavior to the author.

Yay! All fixed! Finally compiled and installed the latest CVS version
of Dr Genius!
This thread (+2 compile errors, probably should have been on
bugs.gnome) can now close.

-- 
  -nils