Re: GtkAda for GTk4?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2022-02-13 16:32, Andreas Almroth wrote:

> Looking at the excellent support for GTK in GtkAda over the past many years, which I have enjoyed using, I was looking for (aka googling) references to any initial thoughts/work on having GtkAda to also support GTK4.

Well, knowing GTK's disastrous history it cannot be "also", it must be 
either 3 or 4. GTK 4 breaks basically everything one could ever think of.

To me new features in GTK 4 do not look worth changing the API again, 
not even useful, just fancy stuff. It seems that GTK team keep on 
breaking the API rather out of fun than necessity. Instead of hardening 
the code. GTK 3 is still buggy as hell.

Of course, at some point one will have to migrate, but how about sitting 
GTK 4 over and going straight to GTK 5? Unless they lose remaining users...

> I know, GTK4 has only been "out" for little over a year, but it would be interesting to know if anyone considering doing this. I would be glad to participate, although with limited know-how of the inner workings of GtkAda, but at least testing perhaps.

GtkAda is maintained by AdaCore, so it is them to ask.

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