Re: [Gtk-osx-users] Failure while building gtk+

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us>]

On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Richard Procter wrote:

> 
> On 16/09/2010, at 3:03 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> A big part of the problem seems to be that gobject-introspection  
>> isn't really stable. Perhaps it's too soon for modulesets-stable to  
>> use it. From a Gtk-OSX standpoint, it's useful only for PyGtk... so  
>> what do you guys think? Should I pull it and go back to --enable- 
>> introspection=no for a while in stable?
> 
> That's certainly my impression. I don't feel I know enough to offer a  
> sound judgment on whether it should be in -stable or not. Disabling  
> the new introspection stuff is fine by me, though. My understanding  
> is its the next big thing in GTK bindings and will obviate the need  
> for PyGTK and I'm not using it at the moment as far as I am aware.
> 

As I understand it it won't obsolete PyGtk, but it will make it much easier to maintain. For our purposes, though, that's irrelevant. I'll reinstate --enable-introspection=no in modulesets-stable and modulesets. If someone wants bleeding edge (like me when I'm writing gtk-quartz code), that's what modulesets-unstable is for.

Regards,
John Ralls