Re: GTK4 and gtkmm4 on Arch - Question

Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:02:00 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.gtkmm
Message-ID	<20210414170200.gijtnbqpuw3ekc3w@luna>

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:49:49PM +0200, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list wrote:
[…]
> If Arch Linux does not contain a gtkmm4 package, it's more difficult for you
> to test it. You will have to build some packages yourself, either from
> tarballs or from the git repositories. Building from tarballs is easier than
> building from the git repos.

It may be even simpler to use the AUR[1], especially with a AUR
helper[2] that will guide you through the dependencies.

gtkmm4 is available in there[3], so with your helper of choice you may
run a command as simple as:
% yay -S gtkmm4

Then it will ask you to review the recipes and will invoke makepkg and
pacman for you, so that you get proper packages in the end.

[…]
> Should you wait until an gtkmm4 package is available in Arch Linux? I don't
> know. You can probably ask on some Arch Linux mailing list when that may
> happen. I once asked when it can be expected on Ubuntu Linux. The answer I
> got was that, with very few exceptions, a subroutine library is included in
> Ubuntu only if it is used by an application that's included in Ubuntu. I
> don't know if Arch Linux has the same policy.
[…]

The policy is mostly when a maintainer wants to maintain a given
package, for instance gtk4 was already present before any program
depended on it.  You can express your interest for a given package by
voting for it in the AUR, that requires an account there.

And it will definitely have more weight once you do publish a software
based on gtkmm4. :)

I hope this was helpful to you, Gabriela, if not you should get in touch
with ArchLinux communities.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers
[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtkmm4

-- 
Emmanuel Gil Peyrot

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