Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> perl-GTK2 is written with perl-Inline help, thus having the following
> drawbacks:
> - hard to cover all api (actually, only gtk+2 is partially covered
>   whereas the xs rewrite cover more and cover gnome, gnomeprint,
>   gnomecanvas libraries too).
> - slower to start (lots of hard disk seeks) due to the number of perl
>   modules involved
> - no more maintained
>
> the new rewrite using xs has the following plus:
> - quite a lot more availlable gtk+ widgets
> - cover gnome widgets too
> - automatic reference counting on gboxed objects, gobects, and the
>   like (we do not have anymore to worry about memory management,
>   reference counting, freeing objects like tree iterators, ...)
> - heavily maintained

/me's mouth starts to water... As if I wasn't already overwhelmed at the
office, this really grabs the attention of my "wants to play" side. It'd
opens the door for me to finally work with gtk+2.

On the other hand, gtkmm looks tasty, too...

Thanks for the info, Thierry. I'll keep my eye on this one.

- John


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