Re: gtk2-perl-xs

[Christian Borup <borup borup com>]

On tir, 2003-05-13 at 15:25, muppet wrote:
> Ross McFarland said:
> > i would like to suggest making a development release of gtk2-perl-xs. or at
> > the very least having a discussion of the topic. i.e. figure out what needs
> > to be done before we would want to do so.
>
> i'm all for it.  i've gone from the putting-in-features phase to the
> using-the-hell-out-of-it phase and have found little missing function for
> day-to-day use.  (then again, i'm only doing dialog-based applications right
> now...)
>
> before we can release, we need to rename the G module -- i believe Glib was
> the most-supported name -- and ensure that the various modules build
> independently.  they should be able to build independently, but still have a
> lot of 'use blib' lines all over the place.
>
> also, the utf8 support is still not in place.  christian borup volunteered
> (provided he had time) a couple of weeks ago; any news, christian?  i can do
> it if you haven't the time, but i'll need somebody to help me test it as i'm a
> bumpkin in the US with no actual non-ascii text available.

Unfortunately, I haven't had the time yet. I'll be happy to test though.
For the most part the simple typemap should do the trick. If that
doesn't break anything, I think a "release" can go put. Obviously the
whole thing should be looked over, but really nothing much should be
messing about with SV's directly...

./borup