Re: gtkmm and boost

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:01 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> Like you mention, its always going to be a balancing act.
> 
> I think the thing you need to remember when thinking about changing
> parts of the backend of Gtkmm is that it *is* a wrapper around Gtk.
> There's no getting around that. Replacing things like Glib::RefPtr
> with boost::shared_ptr are probably just not going to happen.

It's not entirely impossible. This suggests how to do it, though I've
never been brave enough to make this change:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104332

> There will always be a whole host of issues that would simply not
> exist if the original Gtk were written in C++. But had it been, it
> probably would've been replaced by somethg else by now.

But we are very ambitious, so we shouldn't give up too easily.

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