Re: [R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ support (or rather lack thereof)

2020-04-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
Thanks for the confirmation, Brian. I wasn't aware that Gtk+2 was abandoned for so long - then our 2.24.17 binaries are in fact quite reasonable and I'll go with that. Thanks, Simon > On 4/04/2020, at 9:11 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > On 04/04/2020 05:15, Tom Elliott wrote: >> Simon,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ support (or rather lack thereof)

2020-04-04 Thread Michael Lawrence via R-SIG-Mac
If we have working 2.24.17 binaries, let's just use them. GTK+ was already super mature by that point; it's unlikely that many improvements/fixes were made. I'll start looking into RGtk3. Actually, I started that like 8 years ago. Michael On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 9:43 AM Kevin Ushey wrote: > For

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ support (or rather lack thereof)

2020-04-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 04/04/2020 05:15, Tom Elliott wrote: Simon, Hence this is a call to the R community to see if anyone actually cares. I (and Chris Wild and quite a few of our mac users) care and would greatly appreciate working GTK+ CRAN packages! I don't have any knowledge re source etc, but just to

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ support (or rather lack thereof)

2020-04-03 Thread Tom Elliott
Simon, > Hence this is a call to the R community to see if anyone actually cares. I (and Chris Wild and quite a few of our mac users) care and would greatly appreciate working GTK+ CRAN packages! I don't have any knowledge re source etc, but just to remind you that the current RGtk2 package

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ support (or rather lack thereof)

2020-04-03 Thread Kevin Ushey
For what it's worth, Homebrew and macports both have scripts for installing GTK+ from sources, so presumedly those could be cribbed into a standalone shell script for a build if desired: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gtk+.rb