GtkD: Dead or Alive?

[David Bryant]

Hi Mike, It's good to hear from an official GtkD maintainer that the 
project isn't dead!

I understand that GTK 3.0 is supposed to be more amenable to language 
bindings than previous GTK versions but don't have any details of how it 
achieves this. This is good from a GtkD point-of-view. I think it's 
important to have GTK 3.0 support in GtkD early because by the time some 
GtkD projects mature GTK 3.0 will be in wide use.

The GtkD repository contains the already generated D bindings. I was 
deterred from attempting the generation step myself because it involved 
setting up wine and htod. I can't help but wonder how much effort would 
be involved in an htod alternative, even if only worked for the 
GTK/glib/etc header files, which follow very consistent patterns...

The callback scheme in GtkD is quite simple and I wonder if you've 
considered anything more elaborate? Gtkmm leverages a callback framework 
called libsigc++. It allows fancy things like binding arguments to 
callbacks, amongst other things.

Would you like help working on GtkD? I will have another go at setting 
up wine/htod and performing the code generation step. Then I will 
attempt to understand how that step works.

Regards,
Dave

On 04/03/11 05:41, Mike Wey wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 06:15 AM, dsimcha wrote:
>
> It's not abandoned, but i haven't had enough spare time lately to work
> on it. there is still enough to be done though.
>
> The biggest issues are probably:
> * Update to GTK 3.0
> * Support GtkBuilder.
> * There are memoryleaks.
>