On 3 Jun, 2004, at 20:21, Per Bjornsson wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 16:21, Denis Leroy wrote:Hi,
A number of app authors have growing concerns about the disappearance
of gtkmm2 (the Gtk2/Gnome2 C++ bindings) from FC2. What happened ?
gtkmm2 and al (gconfmm, libglademm, see http://gtkmm.sf.net/) were part
of FC1, then dropped from FC2. Yet the gtkmm 2.2 libs are remarkably
stable and mature (speaking from experience).
Well, they were never in Fedora Core as far as I know. (Nor in Red Hat
Linux before that.) If you're wondering about Extras (Fedora.us), here's
the bugzilla report for tracking it:
http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1679
(The old packages for FC1 don't build on FC2 apparently, updates are needed, besides probably gtkmm 2.4 is probably the highest priority?)
Many applications rely on these, for example Gabber and cdrdao. cdrdao
is already part of FC2, but its GUI front-end (gcdmaster) is not built.
Is there an official packager for gtkmm ? Is there anything we can do
to help ? Basically this omission relegates a number of worthy projects
into undeserved obscurity.
Well, you can help out with packaging and/or testing the packages; the
bug I referenced should give you some information on whom to get in
touch with (it looks like Michael Koziarski is working on the packages).
That's for getting gtkmm2 into fedora.us, but what would it take to actually get gtkmm into an official Fedora Core release? As long as our users have to actually go out and set up separate repository just to get the libraries our applications depend on, users will considers those libraries to be obscure things. Gtkmm is very mature at this point and one of the major things holding it back is the fact that Red Hat and now Fedora Core do not include it.
Julian
