Re: getting started writing desktop applications

2016-07-21 Thread David Pirotte
Hi Bary, > >> The whole autoreconf setup for added modules seems to get broken with > >> every development releases. Some packages seem to require multiple > >> reconfigs before they build. > > I'm not aware of any of this, could you be more specific? > OK. Looking at guile-dbi My install

Re: getting started writing desktop applications

2016-07-21 Thread Barry Fishman
On 2016-07-21 16:35:56 +03, David Pirotte wrote: >> The whole autoreconf setup for added modules seems to get broken with >> every development releases. Some packages seem to require multiple >> reconfigs before they build. > > I'm not aware of any of this, could you be more specific? OK. Looki

Re: getting started writing desktop applications

2016-07-21 Thread David Pirotte
Hello Barry, Nala, > On 2016-07-18 12:52:24 +08, Nala Ginrut wrote: > > I happened to try guile-gnome few days ago, seems not workable with > > 2.1, I'm using the latest master. Anyone ever tried it? > Yes, with the same bad results. It is hard for me to tell where the > issue lies, since many

Re: getting started writing desktop applications

2016-07-20 Thread Barry Fishman
On 2016-07-18 12:52:24 +08, Nala Ginrut wrote: > I happened to try guile-gnome few days ago, seems not workable with > 2.1, I'm using the latest master. Anyone ever tried it? Yes, with the same bad results. It is hard for me to tell where the issue lies, since many of its dependent packages fail

Re: getting started writing desktop applications

2016-07-17 Thread Nala Ginrut
I happened to try guile-gnome few days ago, seems not workable with 2.1, I'm using the latest master. Anyone ever tried it? On Sun, 2016-07-17 at 17:43 +0100, Paul Emsley wrote: > On 17/07/2016 17:38, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: > > > > Is there a recommended library for building desktop applicat

Re: getting started writing desktop applications

2016-07-17 Thread Paul Emsley
On 17/07/2016 17:38, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Is there a recommended library for building desktop applications? Maybe some GTK (or maybe Tk, as old as it is) tie-ins or something to that effect? There's guile-gnome: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/ P.