[Python-Dev] Re: python-gdk-imlib and Delinquent Maintainers

[Moshe Zadka]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote:

> On 6 Nov 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> 
> > There has been a problem in Debian's python-gdk-imlib package for
> > quite some time: Transparent PNGs do not display properly (see
> > attached example script). According to upstream
> > (http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2000-September/000336.html),
> > the proper solution is either to have Python use RTLD_GLOBAL in
> > dlopen calls when loading extension modules,
> 
> Or, possible, using dlmodule to dlopen things ourselves rather then
> using Python's import facilities for that.

Oooops....I didn't mean to send it here (well, I did, then I change
my mind but forgot to tell my e-mail program about that)

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