Re: Cross compiling Winboard in Linux
"h.g. muller" <[email protected]>
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>This is a little confusing. Did you mean the gtk-xt branch? > >The gtk-xt branch is last updated november 2011, and does not use libXt. > >The gtk branch is not updated since 2010, and does still use libXt and libXaw. > >Would you please explain the status of these two branches. Are they both >used? Thanks. Well, I have had little involvement with the GTK effort so far, but I am sure Arun means gtk-xt branch here. The older gtk branch was a first attempt for a conversion to gtk, but more or less stranded because too many things were not working at once, making testing almost impossible. So Arun started a second attempt, based on the strategy to have a more continuous transition, where both Xt and GDK code initially existed next to each other and where both operational, so the Xt code could be replaced step by step. I think this replacement has now be largely completed, mostly due to the work of John Cheetham, so that the gtk-xt branch now is entirely free of Xt code. Not all GDK code that replaces it works flawlessly, though, and perhaps some dialogs of minor importance not at all (although I am not completely sure of that). I think the gtk brach now is a dead end, although it could be that some code could still be taken from there. That is really for Arun to say.