What happened to gtkmm2 ?

[Julian Missig]

On 3 Jun, 2004, at 20:21, Per Bjornsson wrote:

> 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).

That's for getting gtkmm2 into fedora.us, but what would it take to 
actually get gtkmm into an official Fedora Core release? As long as our 
users have to actually go out and set up separate repository just to 
get the libraries our applications depend on, users will considers 
those libraries to be obscure things. Gtkmm is very mature at this 
point and one of the major things holding it back is the fact that Red 
Hat and now Fedora Core do not include it.

Julian