Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Emmanuele Bassi via gtk-list
Meta: having this discussion on gtk-list is probably the best example as to why we need to move to Discourse. Nobody involved with the development of GTK even reads this list, except me, so you're never going to get more than my opinion about it. Meta × 2: while I am employed by the GNOME Foundati

Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Kasper Peeters
> 1. GTK is not so cross-platform anymore: on Windows and macOS, you > are supposed to build your own library binaries (gvsbuild for Windows > and jhbuild for macOS exist, but are not foolproof). That's definitely not true; on Windows there's vcpkg and on macOS there is Homebrew; both let you inst

Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Emmanuele Bassi via gtk-list
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 11:02, Kasper Peeters wrote: But for the 'big picture documentation', which includes up-to-date > instructions on how to get it up and running on all platforms. Why > gtk.org does not even seem to mention vpckg and Homebrew is a mystery > to me, and seems easy to fix. > Ca

Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Kasper Peeters
> Care to file an issue: > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gtk-web > > to update the wording? Sure, no problem. Cheers, Kasper ___ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list

Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Sergei Steshenko via gtk-list
'Speaking of "why can't?", why can't I write a C application using Qt  ? :))' - actually, you can. You'll need to first run "C" wrappers for C++ code (for top level functions), and then you can write in "C". And using LLVM other forms of language integration is possible. --Sergei. On 3/9/19 6

Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Sergei Steshenko via gtk-list
I meant 'You'll need to first write"C" wrappers for C++ code'. --Sergei. On 3/10/19 7:53 PM, Sergei Steshenko via gtk-list wrote: 'Speaking of "why can't?", why can't I write a C application using Qt  ? :))' - actually, you can. You'll need to first run "C" wrappers for C++ code (for top lev

Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Jerome Flesch
Le 2019-03-10 12:01, Kasper Peeters a écrit : 1. GTK is not so cross-platform anymore: on Windows and macOS, you are supposed to build your own library binaries (gvsbuild for Windows and jhbuild for macOS exist, but are not foolproof). That's definitely not true; on Windows there's vcpkg and on

Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Daniel Kasak via gtk-list
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 7:54 AM Jerome Flesch wrote: > Le 2019-03-10 12:01, Kasper Peeters a écrit : > >> 1. GTK is not so cross-platform anymore: on Windows and macOS, you > >> are supposed to build your own library binaries (gvsbuild for Windows > >> and jhbuild for macOS exist, but are not foo

Re: The Future?

2019-03-10 Thread Michael Torrie via gtk-list
On 03/09/2019 11:29 PM, Miroslav Rajcic wrote: > IMO, it seems that GTK does not have a coherent strategy when it comes > to toolkit features and a cross-platform usage (i.e. lowering the effort > needed to develop for all major OSes). Nowadays it is mostly focused on > adding shiny things as su