David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wonderful, thanks for the detailed explanation. > > The improved performance and stability make it something to look > forward for the Mandrake tools.
the availlability of more widgets is what makes me happy :-) > I like perl-GTK2, but it is slow (some of that is due to Gtk+2 > itself though). > > You mention perl-GTK2 is no longer maintained...didn't you > MandrakeSoft developers write it? What happened, don't have the > resources to maintain it anymore? lack of time plus drawbacks of perl-Inline (which may be a good start point when you don't know xs but is a pain in th *ss for big projects) not our choice in the first place. in fact, mdk did not start this project. the original maintainer more or less gave up, then gc take over the project to make it at least usable for us, thus being able to complete the "switch to gtk+2 in our tools" spec.
