Re: Adding Glib::IO to the released modules

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 16 June 2017 at 12:58, oldtechaa <oldtechaa gmail com> wrote:
> I use Glib::IO and it doesn't take any special work. You can use GIR to
> create a binding, and since the C library is already on the system (it has
> to be to use GTK+) GIR finds it and binds it.

I know how introspection works. :-)

What I'm asking is to make a release of the existing Glib::IO module,
so that people can depend on it on CPAN and Linux distributions can
package it, like they do for Gtk3.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

> On June 16, 2017 6:08:42 AM EDT, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi all;
> >
> > would it be possible to make a release of Glib::IO? Right now, it's
> > basically impossible to write idiomatic Gtk3 code — i.e. using
> > GtkApplication and GtkApplicationWindow — because you need to install
> > Glib::IO from Git, as opposed of CPAN; additionally, Linux
> > distribution won't package the module unless it has a release. This
> > makes the Perl bindings less featureful and integrated with the rest
> > of the GNOME platform.
> >
> > I know that Glib::IO is very much experimental, but at this point all
> > it needs is an updated POD blurb and a simple tarball. There's also
> > the argument that until it gets a release, we won't see any actual
> > user, and thus no bug reports nor patches.
> >
> > Ciao,
> >  Emmanuele.
>
>
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