Re: Real news (was: gtk2 news)

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif vipe technion ac il>]

On 10 Oct 2002, Chas Owens wrote:

> > My plan is not to hack together wrappers for all functions
> > in Gtk+ 2.x at once. Rather I want "use cases" so that all
> > code gets tested.
> > I am working my way through the tutorial http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/
> > porting the example programs to perl and implementing
> > needed functionality. Currently working on label.pl ported
> > from http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ch-miscwidgets.html (chapter 9.1)
>
> Sounds like an excellent way to get from here to there.
>
> > If people are interested in helping out I can put it
> > on SourceForge (CVS) or just a release area and my own
> > site. I have uploaded a snapshot tarball from yesterday to
> > http://kirra.net/perl/arkiv/
>
> Sourceforge this puppy.  With the method you have described it sounds
> like it is very possible to have a lot of parallel development going
> on.  Let volunteers sign up to take on a widget (let more than one
> person take a widget since some will drop out or produce worthless
> code).

You don't really need to translate each widget by itself with Gtk+. Gtk+
has a definition language that describes its widgets, and you can create
the bindings by processing it with a script. No need to work on each
individual widget.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

> > Anyway I can accept code and patches:
> > - new wrappers and function should have "use cases" == test that use that code
> > - patches should have a changelog entry explain the hows and whys
> >
> > happy hacking,
> > --
> > Göran



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