Re: GMime as an external dependency

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On vr, 2009-07-24 at 10:18 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> 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.

That is correct, F-Spot uses a module called gtk-sharp-beans [1] which
adds the API needed to overcome the fact that gtk-sharp is stuck at
2.12.

The gio-sharp module [2] serves the same purpose, for GIO.


[1]: http://gitorious.org/gtk-sharp-beans
[2]: http://gitorious.org/gio-sharp


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Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
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