Re: Gtkmm suitability for ARM

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:07 -0600, Sean Kelley wrote:
> Murray,
> 
> Are your CVS changes at 2.8 level of code?

The disable-deprecated-api stuff? Yes, that's only in gtkmm > 2.8. But
you could backport it to gtkmm 2.6 and submit a patch. It should be
easy.

>   My understanding is that
> at 2.8, gtkmm includes support for Cairo.  But Cairo is very floating
> point intensive, which is not a good thing for an ARM processor.  For
> that reason, I have been using gtk+ 2.6 so as to avoid any Cairo
> changes in 2.8 of Gtk+.
> 
> For embedded development would you recommend sticking with 2.6 of
> Gtkmm? 

Bokia's Maemo platform uses GTK+ 2.6, so, yes, gtkmm 2.6 would probably
be best.

> (I assume this translates to 2.4 for debian).

I'm not sure what you mean.

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