Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk and the scripting languages of the world

[Marius Vollmer <mvo zagadka ping de>]

Peter Mattis <petm@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> 
> Marius Vollmer writes:
> >This is all very vague but I already have some more concrete ideas.
> >They are not concrete enough to be written down and in any case, they
> >will probably require a major overhaul of Gtk.  So I would like to
> >hear from you if there's enough support for a clean interface to high
> >level languages.
> 
> You must remember when doing this overhaul that there is a large body
> of code that already uses GTK. So you can't make huge API changes
> unless you also want to go change that code. (Think about the GIMP and
> its 150k+ lines). Of course, if you also volunteer to update all the
> existing code then there isn't much of a problem. :)

No no, I'll try to make the changes incrementally.  When I can trust
my visions, it would mainly involve adding functions and macros.

I tried to do the same with Tk but shied away because of the huge
amount of work that would have to be done to isolate it from the TCL
interpreter.

Basically, I'm lazy, and this overhaul is the best way I can imagine
to save us all work later.

> I'd be interested in hearing what you propose. I might enjoy shooting
> holes in it. And I might even have a good suggestion or two.

Great, but I wont promise any time frame, of course.