2011/11/7 dimitris chloupis <theki...@yahoo.co.uk>: > Απο: Jon Nordby <jono...@gmail.com> >> We will port to PyGObject and GTK3. PyGObject + GTK introspection >> bindings are in many cases very similar to pyGTK, so it will not be a >> complete rewrite, but small changes will be required all over the code >> base. This will probably happen after 1.0 is out, which should be >> pretty soon. > > Thats a great amazing move and I fully support it but there are 2 things > bugging me > > 1) The "soon" part. How exactly "very similar" is the porting really , sure > I could help with the port too, but I have my doubts here that will be that > easy. Soon referred to how quickly we can start. How quickly we can complete depends mostly on how much people work on it ;) It will definitely be much easier than writing a new UI, or writing the same UI in another toolkit. It is still GTK+, and basically all widgets work in the same way as before. Changes are mostly in syntax, and a script exist to take care of those changes. Of course some things that were deprecated have been removed (but I don't think we are affected by that), and some things are now slightly different. It will not be very hard, but it is of course still a significant amount of work.
> 2) And this is the MOST important, can we really be sure that GTK3 will work > stabily on macos ? GUIs on macos have always being an issue, because Apple > has provided such a very good gui that people prefer to use objective c and > now with the ability to port easily to iOS , its quite rare to find a mac > app that does not use native libraries. So many GUIs on macos are very > neglected and that is a big understatement ;) No, we have zero guarantees. But the only way to find out how well it works, and if it is good enough is to try. >> We would love help with MyPaint, especially on OSX. There is some >> effort going on on providing a MyPaint.app, and this alone would be a >> big step forward for MyPaint on this platform. Once we are ready to >> start GTK3 porting work you can help out a lot there. " > > The build you provide in the website does not even run. It complain , > fairly, but missing python. I would love to help but I am clueless of > objective C and C in general and compilers of course. Yes, another contributor found the same and seems to be working on fixing it. UnconventionalT_ on irc. Maybe talk to him if you want to help out. Just testing it on a different machine might be useful. -- Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list Mypaint-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
