Re: [gtk+osx] gtk for a GNU/configure program?

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Mar 6, 2004, at 10:00 AM, David Burnett wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> What you really should do is just get over it and create the bundles. 
>>  Please don't use my patch :)
>
> I can see a very good use for the patch.
> The window manager problem is the reason gimp
> plugins and extensions do not work. Putting them in
> a bundle would require far more significant reworking
> of the gimp code than relying on your hack.

I'm gonna call bullshit on that one, unless extensions/plugins run in a 
separate process??

> What we should really be doing is campaigning Apple
> to make this an official public call, after all if they
> are using it in GLUT they are unlikely to stop using it
> without providing an alternative.

It's not entirely clear why they are using it in GLUT, none of their 
examples demonstrate that it can work unbundled.  I only know it does 
it because I've read the source (and the source conspicuously links in 
a static library that calls this one function, because it's 
undocumented).

> Stupid idea in the first place, not allowing command line
> tool to have a GUI.

This is all a non-issue, all that matters is
	- argv[0] points to a legitimate bundle somewhere
	- the bundle probably needs a correctly structured Info.plist

You can even execve yourself with a fake argv[0] if you really want to 
be hacky.  Technically, I think that you can rewrite stack bottom too, 
if you do it early, but that's another thing I don't recommend.

-bob