[MacPorts] #45781: gtkextra3: new port
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#45781: gtkextra3: new port
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Reporter: Tom.Schoonjans@… | Owner: macports-tickets@…
Type: submission | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version: 2.3.2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Port: gtkextra3 |
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Comment (by Tom.Schoonjans@…):
Replying to [comment:13 ionic@…]:
> Replying to [comment:12 Tom.Schoonjans@…]:
> > 1) yes there is indeed no support for Gtk3 currently, but that is
being worked on. When this is done, the new version will probably be
called gtkextra-4. We plan on maintaining both gtkextra-3 and gtkextra-4
branches in the future, at least as long as Gtk2 is officially supported.
>
> OK, so we don't need subports for gtk2 and gtk3 for now, then. If, in
the future, gtkextra-4 is supposed to support both GTK2 and GTK3, the
situation may change.
> [[BR]][[BR]]
>
The developers plan to have Gtkextra-3 supporting Gtk2 and Gtkextra-4
supporting Gtk3 (exclusively).
> > 3) I will check if php-gtk and gpsim would build against gtkextra-3
and will try to produce patches if necessary. Php-gtk appears to be dead
by the way
>
> Yeah, PHP-GTK (the port) hasn't been updated in years. Not surprised.
> [[BR]][[BR]]
>
After making a small modification to the configure.ac script of gpsim I
managed to get it building against Gtkextra-3, but this solution
unfortunately didn't work out for php-gtk. Fixing the build errors seems
like a major task and should be taken care of by the php-gtk developers.
> > 4) I am not a big fan of gtk2-extra3 name: I understand the rationale
behind it but I think it just differs too much from the official name. I
would like to suggest gtkextra or gtkextra3
>
> It seems like we're not really consistent in naming `gtk{,2,3}-foo`
ports based on the "correct" toolkit, anyway, so `gtkextra3` may just do
it. I just tried to clear up that mess you're in for putting `3` into a
GTK2-based library name.
> [[BR]][[BR]]
>
I agree that naming the package Gtkextra-3 may not have been the smartest
move… this happened before I joined the development though :-)
> Just one more thing. I'd suggest moving the group back to `x11 devel`
instead of `gnome devel`, because this port has really nothing to do with
GNOME per se, short of using the same drawing library. From what I've seen
it's desktop-evironment-agnostic and can be used just as nicely for
applications "supposed" to be used with `XFCE`. You'll hopefully get the
idea.
I agree
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45781#comment:14>
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