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.
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Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com
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