obsolete D libraries/modules

[Paul Jurczak]

On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 06:34:23 UTC, Peter Williams wrote:
> On 29/08/13 16:11, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> I will say this, one thing about D that has annoyed me from the
>> beginning is the state of the gui libs. Hence why in last 
>> month I've
>> been having a real good play around with OpengGL and creating 
>> my own
>> library [1].
>
> On this topic, I started looking at porting one of my PyGTK 
> applications to GtkD and found that the knowledge of PyGTK API 
> wasn't a great deal of help in this endeavor.  I think the 
> problem is Python's "duck typing" and dynamic typing allow for 
> a very flexible API that is much simpler than GTK+'s and GtkD's 
> is much like GTK+'s.  The problem is complicated by the fact 
> that the amount of documentation is huge and it's often 
> difficult to find where something is defined.
>
> Anyway, long story short, I've decided to investigate the 
> feasibility of rewriting the parts of GTK+ that I like directly 
> in D.  It's early days yet and the code is in a private 
> repository on github.  I'll keep it private until I have some 
> useful subset working at which time I'll make it public.  Of 
> course, if I find that it's all too hard I'll just delete it.
>
> Early indications are that the code will be much simpler than 
> the original as GTK+ implements its own OOP and GC where I'll 
> just delegate that to D. :-)
>
> Peter

In case you didn't know, there is a C++ wrapper for GTK+ called 
gtkmm (http://www.gtkmm.org/en/). It may be useful as an example 
of object oriented interface to GTK+.