[glade--]Re: Glade-- - Gnome2 support

Peter Wainwright wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,

[sigh, mozilla took my first letter with it when it crashed, second try]
> 
> I'm interested in using glade--, but Gnome 2 support doesn't
> seem to be there yet. I checked out the latest from
Correct.
> anoncvs.gnome.org - are these the latest sources?

[aside from the several hours lag of anoncvs compared to cvs.gnome.org] 
yes, they are.

> 
> If Gnome 2 support is coming soon I can save myself some work.
> But just to let you known that I have started to do some
> hacking on it myself... I probably don't have time for more
> than an occasional patch, but here is what I have so far:
> 
> I added a "gnome_version" field to Configuration, which is
> now hardcoded to 2. I don't know how to set this correctly,
> it probably needs another flag in the glade file (of course
> by the time this is finished probably everyone will be using
> Gnome 2 anyway). I added some switch() statements on this
> field, which affect various bits of code generation. For
> Gnome 2 I use the standard gnome-autogen.sh, include macros from
> gnome-common rather than copying from glade/gnome (there
> is no such directory in glade2), etc, etc.

Good news. I really learned to suffer from gnome1's undocumented 
autoconf setup.

> 
> It's not all working yet, but I am beginning to find my
> way around glade--, and hopefully I'll eventually move
> everything to the right place (I defined Gnome_IncludeDir
> in WriterBase.cc, I just now realize it should probably
> be in Naming.cc?)

I'll look for the right place anyway.

Thank you for sharing your patches. I'll look more deeply into them 
lateron, but wanted to reply quickly.

Yours
    Christof

PS: I'll send some notes about gnome2 support to you I sent to another 
person. Separately to not overstress my luck with mozillas editor.
PPS: Personally I don't have any need for gnome support, yet.