Re: Next GNUstep release?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 29 Mar 2010, at 07:37, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> Hey guys...  Matt and I just talked via IM and he reminded me of a
> really important point.
> 
> The functionality using proxies works fine on 32bit machines, but is
> broken on 64 bit machines due to the fact that this bug:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40700
> 
> has not seen release yet on most distros.   There is a patched version
> of this library on our ftp site.

Actually it's the latest official release rather than a patched version.
.
> Should we turn off the NSImage proxy feature if it's on a 64bit system
> for this release or, possibly, try to detect the version of libffi?

That's a good idea ... we could perform the check for 64bit systems only, and 
insist on a working version ... after all broken ffi prevents a whole lot of 
things from working properly, producing obscure bugs anywhere that invocations 
are used ( NSUndoManager, NSConnection, NSTimer etc).