Re: guile-gnome releases: platform 2.7.96, bunch of "extras"

[Greg Troxel]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Very nice!  Is guile-gnome now recommended rather than guile-gtk?  (I
> know the webpage says that there was an amicable split, but it seems
> that it would make sense to have an agreed position on the future, and
> to avoid duplicating work.)

That's a bit complex:

guile-gtk wraps gtk-1.2 only, and is quite stable.  Inexplicably,
there are no releases or tarballs available.  I made my own from CVS
so I could make a pkgsrc entry.  I am aware of no plans to upgrade
guile-gtk for gtk-2.0.

guile-gnome wraps gtk-2 and also gnome, and can do CORBA from
ORBit-2's imodule files.  So it really does something far more than
what guile-gtk does.

I am using guile-gnome for a new project, since guile-gtk is both
static and wraps obsolete/deprecated libs.

guile-gnome is not yet stable, but seems very close.

I was able to port a program that used guile-gtk to guile-gnome very
quickly.

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        Greg Troxel <address@hidden>