Re: Future plans for lablgtk

Hello,

Lablgtk 2.18.5 is great and a very appreciated ocaml GUI toolkit.
Don't think desktop is dead, Lablgtk is by far my most needed ocaml =

companion library.

I have read much alarming programmer-response to GTK+3.
At first i believed things would mature in a direction that make every =

GTK+3 programmer happy.
But now i have changed my mind and think GTK+3 should not become a =

Lablgtk target.

As far as I'm concerned, i need maintenance only, including of course compa=
tibility with
the latest ocaml compiler.

Regards,

Damien Guichard


Adrien Nader a =E9crit :
> Hi,
>
> Lablgtk has been dormant for quite some time now and I think it's worth
> thinking a bit about its future.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, GTK+3 has completely killed my motivation: it
> changed many things, communicated poorly about them, was very clearly
> meant for GNOME and JS or Python bindings, changed API and behaviour
> regularly, ...
>
> In the future, the plan for GTK+ is to have a major release every 2 to 3
> years. Each would take around 18 months to stabilize. It would then be
> maintained until the following one becomes stable.
> GTK+ 4 development has started a few months ago and will probably be
> called stable in 6 to 12 months.
>
> I ask because I think it would be valuable to be able to mention a
> status and a plan for the future so that people know what to expect: new
> developments, maintenance-only, ...
>
> Best,
>