Hi, On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:49:49PM +0200, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list wrote: […]
If Arch Linux does not contain a gtkmm4 package, it's more difficult for you to test it. You will have to build some packages yourself, either from tarballs or from the git repositories. Building from tarballs is easier than building from the git repos.
It may be even simpler to use the AUR[1], especially with a AUR helper[2] that will guide you through the dependencies. gtkmm4 is available in there[3], so with your helper of choice you may run a command as simple as: % yay -S gtkmm4 Then it will ask you to review the recipes and will invoke makepkg and pacman for you, so that you get proper packages in the end. […]
Should you wait until an gtkmm4 package is available in Arch Linux? I don't know. You can probably ask on some Arch Linux mailing list when that may happen. I once asked when it can be expected on Ubuntu Linux. The answer I got was that, with very few exceptions, a subroutine library is included in Ubuntu only if it is used by an application that's included in Ubuntu. I don't know if Arch Linux has the same policy.
[…] The policy is mostly when a maintainer wants to maintain a given package, for instance gtk4 was already present before any program depended on it. You can express your interest for a given package by voting for it in the AUR, that requires an account there. And it will definitely have more weight once you do publish a software based on gtkmm4. :) I hope this was helpful to you, Gabriela, if not you should get in touch with ArchLinux communities. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/ [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtkmm4 -- Emmanuel Gil Peyrot
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