Re: Why are no developers completing/maintaining native Gtk+ for OS X?

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Jacob Juul Kolding wrote:

> On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Kristian Rietveld wrote:
>
> > No, it is not fully complete, but getting close.  Recently, I have  
> > been working on reviewing outstanding patches, fixing up the last  
> > few kinks remaining after the transition to client side windows and  
> > implemented proper and complete multi monitor support.  I do have  
> > plans on how to continue my work on the backend.  Development of  
> > the Mac port is actually pretty active.  I only have very ample  
> > spare time to work on this and I do not get paid for this at all.   
> > Saying that the OS X port is not being actively developed is  
> > actually close to insulting to me; I have been trying my best to  
> > pick it up after the previous maintainer stopped working on it
>
> I can't tell you how happy reading this makes me. I love Gtk+ and  
> have been using it in projects for like a decade, mostly on *nix,  
> but lately cross-platform.
> As for the insult part, it was never my intention, I was merely  
> relaying the present information thats available on the Gtk+ OS X  
> sourceforge site.
>
> Keep up the good work!
> If I had money, I'd pay you ;)

In light of all of the work Kristian has done in the last few weeks,  
I've taken out the stuff about "not actively maintained". There's  
still a fair number (about 80) "FIXME: Implement" comments, so for now  
I think it's still accurate to say that it's not feature complete.   
Sorry, Kristian, I should have updated that sooner.

Regards,
John Ralls