</sect1>
</chapter>
+ <!-- ***************************************************************** -->
+ <chapter>
+ <title>Development of GTK+</title>
+ <sect1>
+ <title></title>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Whats this CVS thing that everyone keeps talking about,
+ and how do I access it?</title>
+ <para>CVS is the Concurent 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 there changes to.</para>
+ <para>The GTK+ developers use a CVS repository to store the
+ master copy of the current development version of GTK+. As
+ such, people wishing to contribute patches to GTK+ should
+ generate them against the CVS version. Normal people should
+ use the packaged releases.</para>
+ <para>The CVS toolset is available as RPM packages from the
+ usual RedHat sites. The latest version is available at <ulink
+ url="http://download.cyclic.com/pub/">http://download.cyclic.com/pub/
+ </ulink></para>
+ <para>Anyone can download the latest CVS version of GTK+ by
+ using anonymous access using the following steps:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><simpara> In a bourne shell descendant (e.g. bash) type:</simpara>
+ <para><literallayout><literal>CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'</literal>
+<literal>export CVSROOT</literal></literallayout></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara>Next, the first time the source tree is
+ checked out, a cvs login is needed. </simpara>
+ <para><literallayout><literal>cvs login</literal></literallayout></para>
+ <para>This will ask you for a password. There is no
+ password for cvs.gimp.org, so just enter a carriage return.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><simpara>To get the tree and place it in a subdir of your
+ current working directory, issue the command:</simpara>
+ <para><literallayout><literal>cvs -z3 get gtk+</literal></literallayout></para>
+ <para>Note that with the GTK+ 1.1 tree, glib has been moved to
+ a separate CVS module, so if you don't have glib installed you will
+ need to get that as well:</para>
+ <para><literallayout><literal>cvs -z3 get glib</literal></literallayout></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>How can I contribute to GTK+?</title>
+ <para>It's simple. If something doesn't work like you think it
+ should in a program, check the documentation to make sure
+ you're not missing something. If it is a true bug or missing
+ 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
+ <oldfile> <newfile>.</literal> Then upload the patchfile to:</para>
+ <para><literallayout><literal>ftp://ftp.gtk.org/incoming</literal></literallayout></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<username>-<date yymmdd-n>.patch.gz</literal>
+<literal>gtk-<username>-<date yymmdd-n>.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>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>How do I know if my patch got applied, and if not, why
+ not?</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>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>What is the policy on incorporating new widgets into
+ the library?</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
+ disgrace to the widget set will gladly be included.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Is anyone working on bindings for languages other than
+ C?</title>
+ <para>The GTK+ home page (<ulink
+ url="http://www.gtk.org/">http://www.gtk.org/</ulink>)
+ presents a list of GTK+ bindings.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><simpara>There are several C++ wrappers for GTK+.</simpara>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><simpara>the gtk-- package, which is a very small wrapper for GTK+.
+ You can find the home page at <ulink
+ url="http://www.cs.tut.fi/~p150650/gtk/gtk--.html">
+ http://www.cs.tut.fi/~p150650/gtk/gtk--.html</ulink>. The FTP site is
+ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/gtk--">
+ ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/gtk--</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://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/VDKHome">
+ http://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/VDKHome</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.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt/">
+ http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt/</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 Heß</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>
+ </sect2>
+
+ </sect1>
+ </chapter>
+
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