Re: [cclan-list] clg?

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:05:02PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> Aptitude tells me that libgtk1.2-dev and libgtk2.0-dev are available,
> but not libgtk1.3-dev.  What to do?

Well, the short answer, I'm afraid, is "work very hard"

There are a number of problems with the "cclan v1" effort; most
noticeably is the fact that at present we can't update it. Also, its
role as testbed for distribution issues of lisp packages is mostly done
(or, at least, focus has moved on to "cclan v2" or "vn-cclan", where
"vn" there stands for vendor-neutral.

Further, as far as I know, clg is looking fairly stagnant; it hasn't
been updated in quite a while (certainly, /before/ gtk+-2.0 was
released); so in that sense the dependencies on the clg .deb are
perfectly accurate.

What to do, then, depends on what you wanted clg for. If it was to play,
then I'd advise playing with McCLIM instead -- it looks more fun, if
less visually appealing initially. If it was to create polished UIs, I'd
go for another toolkit (or possibly the clg-0.51 bindings to gtk 1.2);
if it was to work on gtk bindings, I'd get in touch with Espen Johnsen
(the clg maintainer) and ask him what needs doing.

Sorry to be so gloomy...

Cheers,

Christophe
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