Re: Why are no developers completing/maintaining native Gtk+ for OS X?

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> > I do not believe that using a pre-built GTK OS X framework is
> > desirable for users or developers. Include GTK as part of your
> > app bundle. Its not hard to do and gives you complete control
> > over which version of GTK is used by your app.
>
> I think this confuses two issues. I include a pre-built GTK as
> part of my app bundle for OS X, just as I do for MS Windows.
> It is difficult for me to build the GTK stack for OS X myself
> because I work on Linux and have only occasional access to an OS X
> machine.
>
> With the win32 binaries available from gtk.org, one can select the
> pre-built package that works best (i.e. "complete control over GTK
> version").  It would be great to be able to do that with OS X too,
> though of course I understand that Kris Rietveld casn't be
> expected to do all the work this would involve!

Interesting point. ISTM that a framework is perhaps not the best  
solution in this case. A tarball of the gtk+ and dependencies  
installation folder would be easy to provide and would integrate well  
with autotools. Would that help you? If so, what would be a good  
prefix to build it into?

Regards,
John Ralls