Re: gtkmm and gtk-osx

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 15:04 +0200, Paul Davis wrote:
> 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).

Well that's as true (not needed generally, I mean) for Linux and Windows
as for MacOS, I'd guess.

> 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 relying on the framework can put you out of date with those fixes (or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
> 
> 
> 
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