Re: [Re: [gtkmm] Does gtkmm come bundled with GNU/Linux distros?]

[Shantanu Kumar <shantanu ax100 net>]

On Monday 06 October 2003 20:45, Murray Cumming wrote:
> Shantanu Kumar <shantanu ax100 net> wrote:
> > > > And how officially is Bakery linked with gtkmm?
> > >
> > > It is developed by some of the same people. It is useful. Please define
> > > "official".
> >
> > I am only curious about whether Bakery is an official app-framework
>
> extension
>
> > for gtkmm and would continue to be so, or it's just an independent
> > project with support for gtkmm only one among many in the agenda. To be
> > specific, i
> >
> > want know how committed is Bakery toward gtkmm on a long term basis.
>
> There is a bakery mailing list.
>
> I am the maintainer of Bakery and I am also a maintainer of gtkmm. I am
> unlikely to decide that gtkmm is not suitable for bakery.
>
> Some parts of Bakery are theoretically GUI-independent and that is good. I
> have no plans to properly support other GUI libraries, but if I did, it
> would not damage the gtkmm support in any way.
>
> You seem to be asking "If I use this, will you support it for ever?". The
> answer is that nobody is paying us for it yet but it is open source so that
> should not be a problem.

Thanks for clarifying. I appreciate your argument very much; I was just trying 
to get some info so that I could make an informed decision about learning to 
use a framework. It needs some time to learn one anyway, and we've all seen 
the way Inti has gone. So... :-)

Regards,
Shantanu