GtkD: Dead or Alive?

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 3 05:55:53 PST 2011


On 3/3/2011 3:42 AM, Stephan wrote:
> On 03.03.2011 07:38, David Bryant wrote:
>> I use GtkD for my yet-to-be-released personal project. I recently
>> submitted a GtkD bug report recently and it didn't go anywhere, so I
>> hand-patched the generated code locally.
>>
>> I also maintain my own patch to allow it to build with the latest
>> version of dmd-2 with warnings enabled.
>>
>> On the whole GtkD works very well for me. I prefer using it to Gtkmm,
>> the C++ bindings.
>>
>> GtkD seems to be both mature _and_ abandoned :(
>>
>> Just wanted to express my usage and interest in GtkD too.
>>
>> On 03/03/11 15:45, dsimcha wrote:
>>> I've been using GtkD for my Plot2kill plotting library, and overall it
>>> appears to be the most mature D GUI library available. However, I've
>>> noticed that no commits have taken place for several months, and nobody
>>> seems to want to test the 64-bit support patch I submitted.
>>>
>>> Is the lack of GtkD activity because the project is mature and not much
>>> still needs to be done, or because GtkD has been abandoned?
>>
>
> Could you provide this patched version of yours publicly ? I would be
> interested in it.

It's fairly quick and dirty and not well tested, but the patch is at 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/gtkd/ticket/95 .


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