[gtkada] Building GTKAda testgtk on Debian (Sid)

Nicolas Setton setton at adacore.com
Thu Sep 6 00:42:33 CEST 2012


Hi Ludovic,

> I'm on this list, so it is as appropriate as any other :)

Great news :)

> I'll try to find the time to see why testgtk still requires GtkExtra.
> If the problem is in AdaCore's repository I'll report back here.  In
> the mean time, followup to 686781 at bugs.debian.org or
> http://bugs.debian.org/686781 which Brian just opened.

>From our point of view, we still have users relying on GtkExtra, so we are still
including bindings to GtkExtra in GtkAda-2, along with the corresponding
examples in testgtk.

Contrary to what we were thinking, the GtkExtra team is working on a port to
Gtk3, so we might even include some bindings to GtkExtra in GtkAda-3 (based on
Gtk3).

If the Debian community judges that GtkExtra is not useful, reviving
no_gtkextra.patch seems reasonable.

Nicolas


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