Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Huang Ying wrote:
| >>The "mm" extension doesn't seem to have a port on FreeBSD either.
| >>What is actually the difference between gtk+ and gtkmm ?
| >>
| > 
| > gtk+ is a toolkit with C api, and gtkmm is a language binding of gtk+
| > that provide the C++ api of gtk+. I remember there is gtkmm 2.0 port in
| > FreeBSD 4.8, no package, you must compile it from port. The name of port
| > probably is gtk--2.0, because gtkmm has ever used gtk-- as there name.
| > 
| Ah, thanks. Indeed there is actually the FreeBSD port "gtk--2". So that must
| solve the config problem for FreeBSD, I hope.
| 
| Allow me, though, to be confused why gtk 'minus minus' is the extension for
| C 'plus plus' !?! A kind of gtk humor?

Probably... and gtk+ was already taken.

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        Lgb

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