G-Wrap, helping out on the G2 port

[Derek Atkins]

Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann at gmx.at> writes:

> I don't have currently a real plan for what will come in 1.6; most
> probably 1.6 will be mostly source-compatible to 1.4, but excluding
> the GLib bindings and having a few new features. 1.8 (or 2.0, since
> that is a really major change) will base upon my TNG work; at least
> this is my rough development plan.

Well, we still need bindings for glists, gslists, and a few other glib
features (which I can't think of at the moment).  It would be NICE if
g-wrap 1.4 at least maintained this (but perhaps built against glib-2
instead of glib-1.2).

> I did expect this ;). However, Guile-GObject will most probably join
> the Gnome Platform Bindings[0] for GNOME 2.8, and then we'll have
> strict requirements[1] on both release schedule and API stability.

Gnucash always delays dependencies, so that means we wont release
anything that uses this until at least 6 months later (or more).  But
for gnome-2.8 you're talking at least a year away from now, so that's
not something on the gnucash-2 radar.

While I'm very happy to see g-wrap development progressing, it's at a
point where I'd like to see gnucash's dependency on gnome get reduced.

-derek
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