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From: MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com>, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: status of guile-gnome and replacements?
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 16:47:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1989a0ad-9d6a-110f-ddab-0c15d2e6a875@fannys.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmipm0liq7s.fsf@s1.lexort.com>


On 11/7/23 16:37, Greg Troxel wrote:
> In pkgsrc we are pruning gnome2 (but have mate).  That's not about
> guile, but it is causing a hard look at things that depend on gnome2.
>
> We have guile-gnome 2.16.5, the most recent release, released in June of
> 2017.  I remember using something in 2004ish, but more for gtk than
> gnome.
>
> Our package depends on guile 2.0.  I just tried to run calc.scm which I
> remember from the old days, but it failed, perhaps  due to how we
> namespace multiple guile versions.
>
> I tried to find what guile-gnome has been replaced by, and remembered
> g-wrap, but last release was 2015 and it's a FFI.
>
> I then found guile-gtk, from 2007 which says to use guile-gnome.
>
> I found guile-cairo, from 2020 which counts as recent, but "Guile-Cairo
> is complete, wrapping almost all of the Cairo API." which does not seem
> to be "you can use this to do random gtk3 things".
>
> So: what is the current best way to do gtk3 (4?) from guile?
>
> At this point I have no need, but I like to see guile things live on,
> when it makes sense.  But it is seeming like tilting at windmills to
> keep guile-gnome going.
>
> What do other packaging systems do?  Debian 12 doesn't have guile-gnome
> but it does have guile-cairo.
>
> Greg
>

As far as i know the most maintained and best way to use gtk/gnome 
things from guile is guile-gi https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi


Regards,

MSavoritias




  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-07 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-07 14:37 status of guile-gnome and replacements? Greg Troxel
2023-11-07 14:47 ` MSavoritias [this message]
2023-11-07 16:22   ` Mike Gran
2023-11-08  3:19 ` David Pirotte
2023-11-10 14:15   ` Greg Troxel
2023-11-08  3:27 ` David Pirotte

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