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<book>
<bookinfo>
<date>November 13th 2003</date>
<date>November 20th 2003</date>
<title>GTK+ FAQ</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ in 21 Days" by Donna Martin
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>
<sect1 id="faq-MailLists">
<title>Is there a mailing list (or mailing list archive) for
GTK+? <emphasis>[GTK 2.x]</emphasis></title>
@ -671,14 +671,14 @@ successful, try executing it.</para>
<sect1>
<title>Whats this CVS thing that everyone keeps talking about,
and how do I access it?</title>
and how do I access it? <emphasis>[GTK 2.x]</emphasis></title>
<para>CVS is the Concurrent Version System and is a very
popular means of version control for software projects. It is
designed to allow multiple authors to be able to
simultanously operate on the same source tree. This source
tree is centrally maintained, but each developer has a local
mirror of this repository that they make their changes to.</para>
designed to allow multiple authors to simultanously operate on the same
source tree. This source tree is centrally maintained, but each
developer has a local mirror of this repository that they make
their changes to.</para>
<para>The GTK+ developers use a CVS repository to store the
master copy of the current development version of GTK+. As
@ -725,12 +725,22 @@ need to get that as well:</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The CVS archive stores both the current development version of
GTK+ (the CVS HEAD branch) and all current and past stable versions.
If you want to retrieve a specific version of GTK+ you have to specify
the CVS tag corresponding to the version you want to checkout. If you
want to checkout the current GTK+ 2.2 stable source code, you would need
to use the following command:</para>
<para><literallayout>
<literal>cvs -z3 get -r gtk-2-2 gtk+</literal>
</literallayout></para>
</sect1>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>
<title>How can I contribute to GTK+?</title>
<sect1 id="faq-Patches">
<title>How can I contribute to GTK+? <emphasis>[GTK 2.x]</emphasis></title>
<para>It's simple. If something doesn't work like you think it
should in a program, check the documentation to make sure
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feature, track it down in the GTK+ source, change it, and
then generate a patch in the form of a 'context diff'. This
can be done using a command such as <literal>diff -ru
&lt;oldfile&gt; &lt;newfile&gt;</literal>. Then upload the patchfile
to:</para>
&lt;oldfile&gt; &lt;newfile&gt;</literal>.</para>
<para><literallayout>
<literal>ftp://ftp.gtk.org/incoming</literal>
</literallayout></para>
<para>The patch should then be attached to a bug report in
the GNOME bug tracking system, which can also be used to store
general patches
(<ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org">http://bugzilla.gnome.org</ulink>).
</para>
<para>along with a README file. Make sure you follow the
naming conventions or your patch will just be deleted! The
filenames should be of this form:</para>
<para><literallayout>
<literal>gtk&lt;username&gt;-&lt;date yymmdd-n&gt;.patch.gz</literal>
<literal>gtk-&lt;username&gt;-&lt;date yymmdd-n&gt;.patch.README</literal>
</literallayout></para>
<para>The "n" in the date indicates a unique number (starting
from 0) of patches you uploaded that day. It should be 0,
unless you upload more than one patch in the same day.</para>
<para>Example:</para>
<para><literallayout>
<literal>gtk-gale-982701-0.patch.gz</literal>
<literal>gtk-gale-982701-0.patch.README</literal>
</literallayout></para>
<para>Once you upload <emphasis>anything</emphasis>, send the README to
ftp-admin@gtk.org</para>
<para>This method ensures that the patch will not be lost.</para>
</sect1>
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<sect1>
<title>How do I know if my patch got applied, and if not, why
not?</title>
not? <emphasis>[GTK 2.x]</emphasis></title>
<para>Uploaded patches will be moved to
<filename>ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/patches</filename> where one of the
GTK+ development team will pick them up. If applied, they will be moved
to <filename>/pub/gtk/patches/old</filename>.</para>
<para>Patches that aren't applied, for whatever reason, are
moved to <filename>/pub/gtk/patches/unapplied</filename> or
<filename>/pub/gtk/patches/outdated</filename>. At this point you can ask
on the <literal>gtk-list</literal> mailing list why your patch wasn't
applied. There are many possible reasons why patches may not
be applied, ranging from it doesn't apply cleanly, to it isn't
right. Don't be put off if your patch didn't make it first
time round.</para>
<para>If you have used the GNOME bug tracking system (as stated
<link linkend="faq-Patches">above</link>) then the status
of your patch should be reflected in the bug report.</para>
<para>The GTK+ developers will generally add comments to the bug
report stating what needs to be done to get the patch applied,
or why the patch is not appropriate.</para>
</sect1>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>
<title>What is the policy on incorporating new widgets into
the library?</title>
the library? <emphasis>[GTK 2.x]</emphasis></title>
<para>This is up to the authors, so you will have to ask them
once you are done with your widget. As a general guideline,
widgets that are generally useful, work, and are not a
widgets that are generally useful, work, and are not a
disgrace to the widget set will gladly be included.</para>
<para>The new widgets that get added to GTK+ are generally either
replacements for existing widgets that are no longer
deemed to be adequate, or have been developed externally to GTK+ but
have been widely tested. One possible avenue for this is via
<ulink url="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libegg/">libegg</ulink>.</para>
<para>Before you spend months of your valuable time implementing your
revolutionary widget, it is highly recommended that you get some
feedback on your idea via the appropriate
<link linkend="faq-MailLists">mailing list</link>.</para>
</sect1>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>
<title>Is anyone working on bindings for languages other than
C?</title>
C? <emphasis>[GTK 2.x]</emphasis></title>
<para>The GTK+ home page (<ulink
url="http://www.gtk.org/">http://www.gtk.org/</ulink>)
presents a list of GTK+ bindings.</para>
<para>There is a list of <ulink url="http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html">
language bindings</ulink> on the GTK+ website.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>There are several C++ wrappers for GTK+.</simpara>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>the gtkmm package, which is a wrapper for
GTK+. You can find the home page at <ulink
url="http://www.gtkmm.org">
http://www.gtkmm.org/</ulink>.</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>the VDK package, which was built as
the base package of a GTK+ application Borland-like
builder. The home page can be found at <ulink
url="http://vdkbuilder.sourceforge.net/">
http://vdkbuilder.sourceforge.net/</ulink>.</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>The wxWindows/Gtk package, a free C++ library for
cross-platform GUI development. The home page of this package is
<ulink url="http://www.wxwindows.org/">
http://www.wxwindows.org/</ulink>.</simpara>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>There are three known Objective-c
bindings currently in development:</simpara>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>The <ulink
url="http://www.gnome.org/">http://www.gnome.org/</ulink>
package of choice is objgtk. Objgtk is based on the Object class and
is maintained by <ulink url="mailto:sopwith@cuc.edu">Elliot
Lee</ulink>. Apparently, objgtk is being accepted as the `standard'
Objective-C binding for GTK+.</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>If you are more inclined towards the
<ulink url="http://www.gnustep.org/">GNUstep project</ulink>,
you may want to check out GTKKit by
<ulink url="mailto:helge@mdlink.de">Helge He&szlig;</ulink>.
The intention is to setup a GTK+ binding using the FoundationKit.
GTKKit includes nicities like writing a XML-type template file to
construct a GTK+ interface.</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>The GToolKit package, which can be found at
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/objc-gtoolkit/">
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/objc-gtoolkit/</ulink>.</simpara>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>Perl bindings <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/perl">
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/perl</ulink></simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>Guile bindings. The home page is at
<ulink url="http://www.ping.de/sites/zagadka/guile-gtk">
http://www.ping.de/sites/zagadka/guile-gtk</ulink>.
By the way, Guile is the GNU Project's implemention of R4RS Scheme (the
standard). If you like Scheme, you may want to take a look at
this.</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>David Monniaux reports:
<quote>I've started a gtk-O'Caml binding system.
The basics of the system, including callbacks, work fine.
The current development is in
<ulink url="http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~dmonniau/arcs">
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~dmonniau/arcs</ulink>
</quote></simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>Several python bindings have been done:</simpara>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>pygtk is at
<ulink url="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk">
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk</ulink> and
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python">
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python</ulink></simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>python-gtk is at
<ulink url="http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/python-gtk">
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/python-gtk</ulink></simpara>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>There's are a couple of OpenGL/Mesa
widgets available for GTK+. I suggest you start at
<ulink url="http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jlof/gtkglarea/index.html">
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jlof/gtkglarea/index.html</ulink></simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem><simpara>Last, there are a lot of other language
bindings for languages such as Eiffel, TOM, Pascal, Pike, etc.</simpara>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The 'official' language bindings are C++, Ada and Python.
However, bindings for many other languages are available.</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>