glib/GTK update tentative [Split from Pidgin thread]

[EvilDragon]

Well, if you have a solution... with normal Linux distributions, it's not much different.

You can't use old binaries with new libraries... but there are a lot more maintainers for the packages...

 

[notaz]

One of Angstrom developers once said that we "fail" because we have PNDs as binary packages and not as some system that always compiles everything from source, like maemo repositories do, for example. I can partially agree with that..

 

[Letalis Sonus]

From my experience binary-compatibility has always been less of an issue than source-compatibility concerning GLib or even GTK, though.