Is Balsa still alive ? [was: balsa fails to build with gtk+-3.10.6]

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch igpm rwth-aachen de>]

On 01/06/2014 10:41:07 PM, Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 12/30/2013 11:43:06 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > On 12/30/2013 05:24:30 PM Mon, Paweł Sałek wrote:
> > > On 12/28/2013 01:14:36 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > it looks like Balsa still uses the structure GtkAction which is  
> > > > deprecated in
> > > > gtk+-3.10.6  (its definition is contained in  
> > > > /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gtk/deprecated/gtkaction.h
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I confirm the issue. This action group API turned out to be rather  
> > > unstable. Fortunately, fixing this looks fairly straightforward  
> > > (famous last words! :).
> > >
> > > Pawel
> >
> > Ah, yes...Balsa itself was purged of that API a while ago, but  
> > balsa-ab, the address book editor, is yet to be worked on.  One  
> > issue is whether it should be a GtkApplication or continue to be a  
> > GtkWindow--as I recall, that affects how GtkAction is replaced in  
> > the menus.  Standalone GNOME apps are encouraged to be  
> > GtkApplications, but is the editor a standalone app?
>
> At some point in time, I thought it would be nice to have it as a  
> separate tool. Right now, I think it would be better to add edit  
> functionality directly to balsa and drop balsa-ab entirely.
>
> Pawel


Is there any hope that balsa will build with recent versions of gtk+  
like gtk+-3.12.2 ?

Thanks,
Helmut