Re: [PHP-GTK] Is PHP-GTK dead ?

Le 20/11/2012 14:52, Gianluca Faieta a écrit :
> Bernard,
>
> On Tuesday 20 November 2012 11:05:02 Bernard Fouché wrote:
>> we were trying to install some php-gtk app on a Fedora 17 system
>> (running PHP 5.4.7)  but php-gtk 2 doesn't compile with php 5.4, with
>> have to backtrack to php 5.3 .
> AFAIK, it correctly builds with PHP 5.4. I've built php-gtk against PHP 5.4.5
> a few months ago on windows (https://github.com/gfaieta/phpgtk-build). I
> suspect linux build should be more straightforward; maybe you should try the
> latest sources.

Following my message, I received an email from Timothy Warren explaining 
the same thing. I downloaded the .tgz from 
https://github.com/php/php-gtk-src and it works!

Now it seems that there are a few people continuing development but who 
manages the project's coordination if there is such a person?

>
>> No more development activity for 18 months (at least no visible
>> activity), no news for more than 2 years, a project that gets
>> disconnected from the PHP roadmap, 4 messages in php-gtk-general in
>> 2012, it seems that we have to also abandon the ship asap and rebuild
>> our app with some other solution :-(
> php-gtk is not abandoned; IMHO it only needs more visibility (and more
> contributors). I currently maintain 3 php-gtk applications on Windows and the
> customer is planning 2 more.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gianluca

This is the least that can be said regarding visibility! This is what I 
bumped into while looking for solutions: 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-17-php-5-3-downgrade-4175413875/ 
.

When googling for "php-gtk", the first link is http://gtk.php.net/ which 
says nothing about github nor about any further development.

Googling "github php-gtk" points to different git repo, how one can 
knows about which is the correct repo? Or 'a' correct repo?

So it's unclear if there is still a project leader (Elizabeth Smith? 
You? Someone else?) even if it appears that there are still a few 
persons investing time in the project. This situation makes me think 
than continuing to use php-gtk for our small (but important) app is a 
risk and we must move on to some other solution: enthusiasm about 
php-gtk seems to have faded away and this is usually the first step 
toward a complete stop sooner or later.

Anyway many thanks to you, Timothy and Elizabeth!

     Bernard