On May 4, 2014 at 2:19:13 PM, Daniel Macks (dma...@netspace.org) wrote:
On Sun, 4 May 2014 12:46:58 -0400, Kevin Horton <khorto...@rogers.com> wrote:
> I’d like to update my bluefish package, but all versions newer
> than the one currently in fink require at least GTK 2.20 or GTK 3.
> Is a GTK update on the horizon at all, or should I give up this
> dream?
Last I checked (last summer), newer glib2, the lowest level of the
gnome stack, had problems on OS X. I've been tracking its new stable
releases for a few years...there were still "new" bugs/test-fails in
old APIs as well as fails in the newly added ones (the "reason" other
parts of the stack need the newer glib2), so I wasn't motivated to
really get it all solved (seemed poor to break what works in order to
get new things that also might not be working). I had toyed with simply
scrapping the new interfaces and working on getting the old ones fixed
(so things that say they need new just because "new is better" would be
happy, and only have symptoms for things that already weren't doable),
but seemed like a lot of work for not really fixing the whole problem.
This summer I'm going to try again to get the whole thing working (I've
heard that at least some of the test fails are side-effects of how
fink's build system is running them).
Thanks for the update.
The Bluefish team somehow managed to create a Bluefish app, using GTK 3. It
runs well enough, but of course you can’t use it over ssh, which greatly limits
its usefulness to me. I don’t know whether any of what they do to use GTK 3 is
relevant to fink or not, nor have I discovered how they compile GTK 3 to run on
OS X.
I’m happy to wait until this percolates to the top of your priority list, if
ever.
Kevin Horton
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