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
