Re: GtkExtra Build Environment

I hope you do not mind that I am sending this to the list as others may 
want to participate in this discussion and there is a perception in some 
places that gtkextra is dead.

In my mind, gtkextra-3 should be used for gtk+3. I do not see a time 
scale for gtk+3, but I do see that the effort is to lock down the 
interface and removed depreciated features. This has serious 
implications for gtkextra.

 From my current understanding of the short term goals, would it be 
better to rename the gtkextra-3 tree something like gtkextra-2.2?

Regards,
Roy Rankin

On 05/03/2010 03:01 AM, Adrian E. Feiguin wrote:
> I would focus on gtkextra-3. I suppose Roy would agree that we should put our efforts on a new release, and gtkextra-3 is the way to go. I am positive we can do it before the end of May.
> I will work on the plotting widgets this week and the next. I have a short trip planned in between, though. My life is a little crazy. But as I said, if I can focus my full attention on this for a day or two, that should make it.
>
> Saludos,
> <ADRIAN>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Fredy Paquet [[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 10:17 AM
> To: Adrian E. Feiguin; Roy Rankin
> Subject: RE: GtkExtra Build Environment
>
> The name is very ok, but i wonder wether i should put any work in
> gtkextra-2.
>
> As far as i understand, the whole GTK+ has been moved to cairo.
> So why put any effort in the old stuff.
>
> Do you have plans to officially move from -2 to -3 ?
> In what time range ?
>
> fp
> --On Sunday, May 02, 2010  9:53:02 AM -0600 "Adrian E. Feiguin"
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> That sounds great! Thank you or the time and effort you guys are spending
>> in the project, I should be ashamed.  The main (only) difference between
>> gtkextra-2 and gtkextra-3 is the cairo support for plots. Maybe we
>> shouldn't call it gtkextra-3... Any suggestions?
>>
>> Saludos,
>> <ADRIAN>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Fredy Paquet [[email protected]]
>> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 4:19 AM
>> To: Adrian E. Feiguin; Roy Rankin
>> Subject: GtkExtra Build Environment
>>
>> Hi Adrian
>> Hi Roy
>>
>> Last two weeks i've been setting up an almost clean GTK+ build environment
>> based on the source of version 2.18.9
>> (we're using 5 different platforms Linux RHEL 5, MacOS X, Solaris
>> 10/sparc, Solaris 10/x86, Solaris 8/sparc)
>>
>> Next week i'll start with setting up the biuld environment for GtkExtra.
>>
>> The aim of my work will be:
>> - add full Glade-3 support for GtkSheet, add rudimentary support for the
>> plot widgets
>> - add GtkTextview as a cell entry editor, in order to support multiline
>> text entry
>> - refine cell text alignment options in order to fully support multiline
>> text
>> - rework key bindings in order to support a fluid single/multiline text
>> entry handling
>>
>> There are 4 modules in the CVS tree:
>> - gtkextra (4 years old)
>> - gtkextra-cairo (3 years old)
>> - gtkextra-2 (6 weeks old)
>> - gtkextra-3 (12 days old)
>>
>> gtkextra-2 / gtkextra-3
>> ----------------
>> I'm still not clear what's the difference between them (beside the release
>> notes in README) ?
>> What is the state of gtkextra-3 (the branch started 18 months ago) ?
>> Is there any plans to move from -2 to -3 ?
>> Should i start with -2 or -3 or both ?
>>
>> Any hints welcome!
>>
>> fp
>>
>> ---
>>
>> While fiddling around with GNU autotools i found 2 bugs in gtkextra-2.1.2
>> so far:
>> - gtkextra/Makefile.in- the glib-genmarshaller command cannot be executed
>>     because it has SPACEs instead of TABs in front of the make command line
>> - one missing Marshaller in gtkextra-marshallers.list
>> (i will check these with the CVS branches asap...)
>>
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