Re: Real news (was: gtk2 news)

[Chas Owens <cowens intercall com>]

> My plan is not to hack together wrappers for all functions
> in Gtk+ 2.x at once. Rather I want "use cases" so that all
> code gets tested.
> I am working my way through the tutorial http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/
> porting the example programs to perl and implementing
> needed functionality. Currently working on label.pl ported
> from http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ch-miscwidgets.html (chapter 9.1)

Sounds like an excellent way to get from here to there.

> If people are interested in helping out I can put it
> on SourceForge (CVS) or just a release area and my own
> site. I have uploaded a snapshot tarball from yesterday to
> http://kirra.net/perl/arkiv/

Sourceforge this puppy.  With the method you have described it sounds
like it is very possible to have a lot of parallel development going
on.  Let volunteers sign up to take on a widget (let more than one
person take a widget since some will drop out or produce worthless
code).

> Anyway I can accept code and patches:
> - new wrappers and function should have "use cases" == test that use that code
> - patches should have a changelog entry explain the hows and whys
>
> happy hacking,
> --
> Göran

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