Murray Cumming
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:14:33 -0700
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:01 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > Like you mention, its always going to be a balancing act. > > I think the thing you need to remember when thinking about changing > parts of the backend of Gtkmm is that it *is* a wrapper around Gtk. > There's no getting around that. Replacing things like Glib::RefPtr > with boost::shared_ptr are probably just not going to happen. It's not entirely impossible. This suggests how to do it, though I've never been brave enough to make this change: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104332 > There will always be a whole host of issues that would simply not > exist if the original Gtk were written in C++. But had it been, it > probably would've been replaced by somethg else by now. But we are very ambitious, so we shouldn't give up too easily. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list