From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kodis To: "Neil W. Van Dyke" Cc: Ariel Rios , guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-gtk@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: suggestions for Guile wrt GTK and Gnome support Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:26:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010724112604.A27715@tux.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <15196.20913.8186.886002@winona.neilvandyke.org> <995948004.1114.18.camel@soleil> <15197.28379.594775.931898@winona.neilvandyke.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00010.html On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:49:31AM -0400, Neil W. Van Dyke wrote: > I'm guessing that more often than not, people who were open to > becoming Guile application hackers get the > not-entirely-fair-but-understandable impression that Guile is not > ready for prime-time. This has been my experience. I'd love to make more extensive use of guile and its Gnome and Gtk bindings, but frequently run into problems getting a working installation set up. I just tried this today. The problems I encountered were: - I could find no guile-related package in ftp.gnome.org:/pub/GNOME/stable/sources. - I tried to follow a previous suggestion and get the latest CVS modules. I checked out a copy of guile-gtk and gnome-guile, but was unable to build either. The autogen.sh script couldn't find gnome-autogen.sh and failed. - From what I remember, the last time that I was able to build these packages, I was unable to run any of the programs in the gnome examples directory -- they would all fail with an error to the effect that the "gtk gtk" module could not be found. I don't imagine that any of these problems would be difficult to overcome, but there's no way of knowing how many of these types of minor difficulties I'd run into before I had a working gnome-guile system. Faced with this uncertainty, I tend to just fire up glade and use C instead. It's less elegent, but I know I can get it to work. -- John Kodis Phone: 301-286-7376