Please update "mingw64-x86_64-gtksourceview3.0" - the available version has a severe bug

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 17:29:14 GMT 2020


On 04.07.2020 18:08, Michael Soegtrop wrote:
> Dear Cygwin Team,
> 
> can you please update these packages:
> 
> mingw64-x86_64-gtksourceview3.0
> mingw64-i686-gtksourceview3.0
> 
> The available version 3.24.6 has a severe bug: when a thread ends global 
> objects of gtksourceview are deleted which later leads to crashes when 
> the corresponding memory is reallocated, since the objects are still 
> used by other threads.
> 
> This is fixed since a while, definitely in 3.24.11.
> 
> AFAIK the cygwin (not mingw) packages don't have this issue, but for 
> consistency they should also be updated.
> 
> Thanks & best regards,
> 
> Michael


unfortunately it will not be updated shortly.
The package is currently without an active maintainer

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-March/039877.html

Are you eventually interested to adopt it ?

Regards
Marco


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