What happened to gtkmm2 ?

[Per Bjornsson]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 16:21, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A number of app authors have growing concerns about the disappearance
> of gtkmm2 (the Gtk2/Gnome2 C++ bindings) from FC2. What happened ?
> gtkmm2 and al (gconfmm, libglademm, see http://gtkmm.sf.net/) were part
> of FC1, then dropped from FC2. Yet the gtkmm 2.2 libs are remarkably
> stable and mature (speaking from experience).

Well, they were never in Fedora Core as far as I know. (Nor in Red Hat
Linux before that.) If you're wondering about Extras (Fedora.us), here's
the bugzilla report for tracking it: 
http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1679

(The old packages for FC1 don't build on FC2 apparently, updates are
needed, besides probably gtkmm 2.4 is probably the highest priority?)

> Many applications rely on these, for example Gabber and cdrdao. cdrdao
> is already part of FC2, but its GUI front-end (gcdmaster) is not built.
> Is there an official packager for gtkmm ? Is there anything we can do
> to help ? Basically this omission relegates a number of worthy projects
> into undeserved obscurity.

Well, you can help out with packaging and/or testing the packages; the
bug I referenced should give you some information on whom to get in
touch with (it looks like Michael Koziarski is working on the packages).

Cheers,
Per

-- 
Per Bjornsson
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Applied Physics, Stanford University