Re: A new maintainer for DDD

Hi All,

Thanks for your mails.

I will try my best to improve DDD.

Update on developing a new GTK interface to replace the vulnerable Motif
front end of DDD:

Peter had dumped a lot of code to the SVN repository, branch "gddd".

However, this was a a developers-only release. It does't work fully, a
bunch of error/warning messages, some widgets just don't show up and it
will frequently crash.

However, on the bright side, almost all the functions necessary to support
DDD have been isolated in a "cross-platform" GUI interface (see the headers
in gtkx/GtkX).  Much of this is a direct rip-off of the Gtkmm interface -
the implementation for Gtkmm passes through many of the calls and signals
one-to-one.

My effort will be to make this more stable(in next one or two months) and
then announce a developer-only release to try the gddd branch and report
issues and also to submit patches, so that i can make continous improvement
on that branch(apart from working on other new features). I feel this
aproach will be better than working on making the whole GTK interface
stable and then make a release, which will take longer time.

Regards,
Shaunak


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Grog <[email protected]> wrote:

> ditto
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>
> On 05/04/13 15:23, Fred Krogh wrote:
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>> Add me to the list of those extremely grateful that you have taken on
>> this job.  I use ddd almost daily when working on Fortran 200x code, and
>> don't know what I would do without it.  For what it's worth, I have had no
>> real trouble using ddd with Gentoo Linux.  I don't think I'd be all that
>> useful helping with the code, but would happily contribute $100 to the
>> cause if I knew how to do it.
>> Fred Krogh
>>
>>
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