Dub and GtkD

[Mike Wey]

On 12/22/2013 03:36 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 12:58 +0100, Mike Wey wrote:
>> On 12/21/2013 11:19 PM, qznc wrote:
> […]
>>> For some reason GtkD uses some unreleased version of Gtk with some
>>> OpenGL features.
>>
>> This is because the released version of GtkGLext doesn't support Gtk+ 3.x.
>
> OK so that is why it isn't in Debian.
>
> Does Fedora 20 or RPM Fusion have the pre-release as a package?

Not as far as i know.

>>> You can use the "normal/stable" variant by adapting
>>> your dependency a little:
>>>
>>> "dependencies": { "gtk-d:gtkd": "~master" }
>>
>> Just depending on the subpackage you need will stop dub from including
>> the other parts of GtkD in your app. So this should fix your problem.
>
> OK, that can work for me.
>
> Python now uses the reflection approach to providing a Python binding to
> the API: PyGTK has given way to PyGobject. Has the PyGobject approach
> been rejected for GtkD staying with the PyGtk approach?

I don't think that would be a good approach with D, you either need a 
whole lot of compile time magic, or loose type safety and do everything 
at runtime.

> I am currently rewriting a gtkmm application I had in GtkD and once a
> few problems of connectSignals is solved I am going to be loving it,
> thanks for keeping it going.
>

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Mike Wey