Re: Gtk::Application punted to gtkmm 3.2

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 10:21 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:17 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > We should freeze the gtkmm API in the next day or so, to be roughly in
> > sync with the GNOME 3.0 schedule. Gtk::Application still isn't ready so
> > I have removed it for now. Hopefully we can figure things out and add it
> > for gtkmm 3.2. This is the gtkmm bug about it:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637445#c17
> > 
> > This commit removes it, which can be reverted later:
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm/commit/?id=83f5d5f1ab792ff823d5748265907be97e422aea
> > 
> > And the code is still in this branch:
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm/log/?h=gtkapplication
> > 
> > As far as I can tell nobody was using Gtk::Application in gtkmm yet,
> > though I guess people will start to want it once GNOME 3.0 is out.
> 
> I doubt that Gio::Application will be used without Gtk::Application, so
> I will also temporarily remove Gio::Application and Gio::ActionGroup
> from glibmm too. That removes the risk that we would need to change
> their API too after declaring it stable. 

We have made some progress with this since adding it back recently, but
I think we need to remove it again so we can get gtkmm 3.2 out in time
for GNOME 3.2 this week:
https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne

It feels close to finished, but it would be risky to assume that its
API/ABI is ready before testing it in a real application. 

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