Re: gtkmm and boost

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 00:50 +0800, manphiz wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 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 probably would've been replaced by somethg else by now.
> > 
> > Paul Davis
> > 
> 
> Ok, i see. I'm convinced that the Gtk-wrapper nature is after all the 
> essence of gtkmm, which is a fair-enough trade off back in the day when 
> Gtk was invented. So I'll stop pursuing Boost-ized gtkmm.

good grief. this is appallingly reasonable and thus totally
unacceptable. what happened to a good old week long flame fest? have we
really sunk that far into mediocrity? 

:))