Ten years with gtkmm, glibmm and other mm modules

Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:59:29 +0100
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About 10 years ago I started a new hobby: Making contributions to gtkmm 
and other mm modules. Along the way other contributors have decreased 
their share in the development of these modules. I have found myself 
adding the majority of new patches. That was never my intention, but I 
wanted to have a useful version of gtkmm4 when gtk4 became stable. That 
has happened now. There are stable versions of gtk4, gtkmm4 and all 
modules that gtkmm4 depends on.

In the future I intend to spend less time on mm modules than I've done 
the last few years. An opportunity for other C++ programmers to enter.

Don't misunderstand me. I have not been alone. Other persons have 
contributed. But I've done a greater part of the job than I intended. 
And still gtkmm4 and the corresponding version of gtkmm-documentation 
are not quite finished. Classes in gtk's gsk subdirectory have not been 
wrapped in C++ code. Neither have classes and methods that use 
structures from the graphene library. Should there be a C++ binding of 
graphene? graphenemm? Hopefully most users of gtkmm4 will not need the 
missing classes and methods urgently. It's always possible to use the C 
functions directly, although that's not what a C++ programmer would love 
to do.

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