Re: GMime as an external dependency

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Andre Klapper<ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 24.07.2009, 10:59 -0500 schrieb Mike Kestner:
>> Yes, gtk-sharp-2-12-branch is the stable and probably final 2.x branch
>> for gtk-sharp. The trunk branch will target gtk 3.0 when it is released.
>> The 2.12 branch should be used for future 2.x builds.
>>
>> trunk is still 2.x for gnome-sharp and gnome-desktop-sharp.  I'll send a
>> message to d-d-l if/when they switch to 3.0.
>
> Does this actually mean that cleanup bugs like
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580422 or
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587320
> that require GTK API that was introduced after GTK 2.12 cannot be fixed
> before GTK3 gets released?
>
> If so this totally blocks GTK3 readiness for applications that depend on
> gtk-sharp I assume?

Well, as stated in at least the Tomboy bug above, we should be able to
work around this even if we are using gtk-sharp 2.12.  We can just
DllImport the new API ourselves.  F-Spot has a project on gitorious
(called gtk-sharp-beans, I think) where they maintain a few post-2.12
pieces of API that they use, so gtk-sharp being stuck on 2.12 is not
too big a hindrance for us.

So to be clear, that Tomboy bug does not block on updates to
gtk-sharp, and is targeted to be fixed by Tomboy developers before
GNOME 2.28.

Sandy