[racket-dev] Native graphics libraries upgraded for Windows and Mac OS X (was Re: Windows GTK version conflicts with GObjectIntrospection)

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 10 11:05:29 EDT 2014

It looks like yesterday's Utah snapshot had the glitch:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/20140409-8c1206c/doc/plot/intro.html?q=plot#%28part._.Renderer_and_.Plot_.Bounds%29

So, yes, it looks like the library upgrade fixed the problem on Mac OS
X.

At Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:57:37 -0600, Neil Toronto wrote:
> This may have fixed the missing polygons in plots that I reported here 
> for the v6.0 release:
> 
>    http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev/archive/2013-December/013797.html
> 
> The sphere plot here is fine, whereas I *think* it wasn't before:
> 
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/current/doc/plot/intro.html?q=plot#%28part.
> _.Renderer_and_.Plot_.Bounds%29
> 
> But I really need to see the Northwestern snapshot. Yesterday's is still 
> missing the polygon for that plot. Today's build isn't finished, though. 
> According to previous build logs, it should be by now.
> 
> Neil ⊥
> 
> On 04/10/2014 05:01 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > I've *finally* upgraded the native Windows and Mac OS X libraries for
> > the drawing stack, including GLib, Cairo, and Pango.
> >
> > I've upgraded the libraries for the development version, but not for
> > the upcoming v6.0.1 release, because I'd like to test the new versions
> > for a cycle before putting them in a release. The Utah snapshot page
> > has builds using the new libraries:
> >
> >   http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/
> >
> > I built all the libraries from source this time, instead of taking
> > Windows binaries from www.gtk.org, and so the builds use the same
> > version and configurations for all platforms. For example, the Mac OS X
> > builds now include FreeType. See "racket/src/native-libs/README.txt"
> > for more information.
> >
> > In case there are still any Mac OS X PPC users, the minimum supported
> > version of Mac OS X is now 10.5 instead of 10.4. (Version 10.5 was
> > already the minimum version for Intel, for reasons that I can't
> > remember.)
> >
> > At Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:34:19 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >> I haven't had a chance to look into this, but it's still on my list.
> >>
> >> At Sun, 06 Oct 2013 11:48:57 +0400, Roman Klochkov wrote:
> >>>   Can we upgrade GTK version in the next windows bundle?
> >>> Or at least GLib and GObject.
> >
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