Re: new gtk2-perl

[goran kirra net]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:19:21PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> muppet <scott asofyet org> writes:
>
> > As I mentioned last week or so[1], the non-perlish handling of GObject
> > versus GtkObject references and GBoxed lifetimes and all that stuff
> > really grated on my nerves, and I wanted to take a week or so to play
> > around with ideas for handling it better.
>
> [...]
>
> I'm glad you pushed your ideas down to implementation. It's a
> rather impressive work. Congratulations! That new gtk2-perl will
> probably ease up the extensibility of the project - even if
> stabilizing to the same level of usability that current gtk2-perl
> should not be an easy task. Good luck for the future.

Me too.
I have always said that I would accept hard technical reasons not to
use inline while political reason would have no weight. Show me the code,
and muppet did so! :-)

I think we should put muppet efforts in CVS f.ex. with the module name
"gtk2-perl-xs" and continue hacking in parallell modules.
If or when gtk2-perl-xs surpasses gtk2-perl in functionality and stability
we can decide to switch the official releases to gtk2-perl-xs and deprecate 
the inline based module.

Thoughts?


happy hacking
/göran