[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] mingw-spec: Update msitools dependency

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 02:10:37AM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> 
> Okay, this error only happens when using Windows XP machines due to a
> GLib "regression"[0], see the bug here:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730352.
> 
> [0]:
> Seems like GLib is going to drop support to Windows XP (and GTK already did)
> 
> 20:56 <  fidencio> ebassi: about your comment on 730352 ... does it
> mean "we don't care about regressions on XP?"
>                    or just "we are not trying to improve anything on XP"?
> 20:57 <    ebassi> fidencio: Neither :-)
> 20:57 <    ebassi> fidencio: I said that the regression should be investigated
> 20:57 <    ebassi> fidencio: And possibly fixed — but we're going to
> drop Windows XP everywhere (GTK already
>                    did), so it may not help you much in the longer term.
> 20:58 <    ebassi> i.e. even if Fan or LRN manage to fix it, it just
> delays the inevitable
> 21:00 <    ebassi> fidencio: You may want to stay with an older
> version of GLib, at least for Windows XP builds.
> 
> And here are the links to the discussion threads on gtk-devel-list:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2014-December/msg00055.html
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2015-April/msg00000.html

Which brings the question as to what to do for mingw-virt-viewer. A
couple of options come to mind:
- drop support for Windows XP and be very explicit about it (ideally we
  could have Windows version checks in the installer?)
- keep support for Windows XP, if we want to keep doing the build using
  fedora infrastructures, this would require having
  mingw-gtk-compat/mingw-glib-compat packages corresponding to the last
  gtk/glib versions with working Windows XP support (I don't know if
  such packages would be accepted in fedora repos)

I have a preference for option #1, but both are fine with me.

Christophe
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