Re: gtkmm and gtk-osx

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 15:02 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 05:54 -0700, Chris Share wrote:
> [snip]
> > first thing to realize: you *must* build gtk-osx from source, along with
> > the whole GTK dependency stack. jhbuild makes this pretty easy, most of
> > the time.
> [snip]
> 
> Why isn't the new "framework" good enough?
> http://www.gtk-osx.org/

its OK for developers to use if they have no need to do deeper level
debugging (i.e. modify the code).

i can't imagine feeling comfortable with this at this time. i need to be
able to add printf/cerr statements as needed, and using a framework
conflicts with that.

in addition, there are many important fixes to gtk/osx that show up;
relying on the framework can put you out of date with those fixes (or
breakage) much more easily than using jhbuild.

its particularly true for ardour, where we have our own patches to
gtk/osx that have not yet made it into svn (and may never).

--p