[pygtk] 2.4.2 release

John Ehresman jpe at wingide.com
Fri Mar 18 01:20:41 WST 2005


Dave Aitel wrote:
> I've been using the latest pygtk 2.4 from the win32 distro site - I've 
> been testing Python 2.4, which is when the crashes started. pyGTK is the 
> only binary module we import, so I'm assuming it's pyGTK, although I 
> don't have proof, and a stack trace didn't seem very interesting.

Two things come to mind:
* pygtk uses the PyGIL api calls when built w/ python 2.4.  This should 
be an improvement, but it is a different code path.
* python 2.4 uses the msvc 7.1 C runtime dll and gtk uses the msvc 6 
runtime dll, which may cause problems.

John


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