vte for FC3/FC4 testing

[Warren Togami]

Warren Togami wrote:
> Per Bjornsson wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:20 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>>
>>> I just pushed this package to FC4.  Not sure if it will make 
>>> FC4test1, but we'll see.  I didn't get a chance to try your 0.11.13 
>>> yet.  Maybe we can consider it for rawhide sometime after test1.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any chance to get an FC3 update as well? Not only is the vte in FC3
>> slow, it also has really annoying rendering bugs (easily seen e.g. in
>> nano, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=127972 ).
>>
>> Until today I was using a rawhide version I rebuilt some time ago (per
>> comment in that bug report); I've given your new version (0.11.12-0.FC3)
>> a spin and I haven't hit any problems yet. In fact, I think it fixes a
>> couple of residual problems that I had (but I can't tell for sure yet
>> since I couldn't figure out exactly how to reproduce them, it was mainly
>> occasional screen corruption when scrolling a lot). It would be
>> wonderful if you could shove this version into FC3 updates-testing ASAP
>> and see if others have the same experience.
>>
> 
> It seems that this 0.11.12 based package is much better than FC3, but I 
> am more concerned about long-term runtime problems.  Keep testing it, 
> and stress it hard, try to make it break.  If nobody complains for a 
> while then we'll push this to FC3 updates.
> 

Just as I had feared, long runtime with heavy activity shows signs of a 
memory leak.  I don't have time to debug this anytime soon.

So it would be appropriate to push this to FC3 updates only if the 
current FC3 vte also has memory leaks.  It probably does.  Can somebody 
confirm?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com