Mike Kestner has no activity on that codebase in the last 4 months. I think that it's safe to say that if we wait for him to do a release we could be waiting indefinitely.
We need someone to step up and volunteer to do this release. Any takers? On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Morgan <[email protected]>wrote: > Mike Kestner is the maintainer of Gtk#. However, I agree. If he does not > have time no more, then someone should become the new maintainer of gtk#. > > Gtk# can be found here at Github. You will see changes have been made for > gtk+ 3.0. And you will see custom files have been moved to partial > classes. > https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp > > We have been waiting a long time for a preview of Gtk# 3.0. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Daniel Hughes <[email protected]> > *To:* Andres G. Aragoneses <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:54 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Mono-list] GTKsharp 3 > > I have managed to gain the following information from this bug report: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648121 > > The banshee port to GTK# 3 is complete they are just waiting for a release > of GTK # 3 (as of 3 months ago, from Comment 8) > > Mike is the maintainer of GTK# but he doesn't have any time to work on > it (according to Comment 7). I'm not sure who this Mike is but if he > doesn't have time to maintain it, is the project then in need of a new > maintainer? > > I still have not been able to establish where the GTK# 3 code is hosted. > If I knew that I could start trying to port my application, submit bug > reports and even contribute any fixes I require. > > I would also like to know who is in a position to issue a release. I can't > see why a release shouldn't happen straight away so that us app developers > and go ahead and attempt to port our applications. The most effect way to > kill a opensource project (or any project) is to never release. > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Andres G. Aragoneses <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 12/09/12 08:46, Mathias Tausig wrote: > > On Tuesday 11. September 2012 11:53:03 Andrew York wrote: > > How far along is XWT? I'm don't mind trying out something in beta for > fun, but I'm not smart enough to make major contributions. Is XWT far > enough along for the average end developer to start having fun with? > > > I recently tried it for a new project. It is actually very stable and very > comfortable to work with, but the problem is, that is still missing a lot > of > features that you would expect from something you want to use productively > (like message boxes, window-close event, open file dialog, password entry > field) > > > > > If everybody thought like that, nobody would use any library or framework > at all. > > Decent helpers usually have about 80% of what you need. That is already a > huge saving if you can use the helper instead of writing your own. You just > need to write the other 20%[1] > > * As for us, we used it and had to implement couple of things which were > merged recently from our pull-requests: progress bars and status-icon > widget. So please, go ahead and implement MessageBoxes and > PasswordTextEntries. > > Cheers > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > >
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