[tomboy-list] Jotting down some thoughts for future cross-platform work on tomboy...

[Boyd Timothy]

Any reason we couldn't just hack on this in trunk?  I guess other than
preserve trunk so it'll be ready for GNOME releases?

Boyd

On Dec 7, 2007 2:40 PM, Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Exciting!  My own personal celebration involved merging over
> everything in trunk to the tomboy-portable branch.
>
> So tomboy-portable is quite ready for hacking.
>
> The philosophy behind the branch is kinda documented here:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Win32/Refactoring
>
> It address a few of the issues brought up by kangaroo.
>
> Sandy
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2007 8:40 AM, Boyd Timothy <btimothy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just had a quick chat with kangaroo in #mono about some of the new and
> > upcoming Gtk# stuff for OS X...
> >
> > 09:06 < boyd> is the imdendio stuff already included in the latest mono svn?
> > 09:06 < kangaroo> boyd: what imendio stuff?
> > 09:07 < boyd> Gtk+ for OSX/Gtk#
> > 09:07 < kangaroo> boyd: We wont be pulling that into our SVN
> > 09:07 < kangaroo> We will be shipping binary versions tho
> > 09:08 < kangaroo> The only things that need to go into our svn were
> > some changes to make monodevelop play nice
> > 09:08 < kangaroo> and those landed yesterday
> > 09:08 < boyd> kangaroo: but it's essentially ready right now that we
> > could start hacking on getting something like tomboy running in osx?
> > 09:10 < kangaroo> boyd: sure
> > 09:10 < kangaroo> altho if you dont wait for us to ship binaries
> > 09:10 < kangaroo> you're going to have to build the gtk+ stack yourself
> > 09:10 < kangaroo> and gtk# dll.config remaps
> > 09:11 < kangaroo> also note we're likely only going to support the
> > binary version we ship initially
> > 09:11 < kangaroo> tomboy needs libpanelapplet tho doesn't it?
> > 09:11 < boyd> kangaroo: so will the imendio stuff be part of the next
> > mono release (the one that's gonna release before the end of the
> > year)?
> > 09:12 < kangaroo> but it might come as a mac-only point release slightly later
> > 09:12 < kangaroo> as we're not going to hold up the release for just that
> > 09:13 < boyd> kangaroo: we'd like to remove our dependencies on
> > libpanelapplet and make tomboy pure gtk+ soon
> > 09:13 < kangaroo> boyd: currently we dont have a firmer date than "soon"
> > 09:13 < kangaroo> We've done the bulk of the work
> > 09:13 < kangaroo> but we still need to start testing and all such things
> > 09:13 < kangaroo> boyd: I'm just looking at the tomboy source now quickly
> > 09:13 < kangaroo> you're also going to need to drop libgnomeprint
> > 09:13 < kangaroo> gnome-sharp
> > 09:13 < kangaroo> gconf-sharp
> > 09:14 < boyd> gconf-sharp too?
> > 09:14 < kangaroo> boyd: Yes; we're not shipping gconf at this time
> > 09:15 < kangaroo> also you can't use gdkx.h
> > 09:15 < kangaroo> because you dont have x
> > 09:15 < kangaroo> also stop using linux-isms in your c code
> > 09:15 < kangaroo> uint is not a portable type
> > 09:16 < kangaroo> same with False
> > 09:16 < kangaroo> its FALSE
> > 09:16 < kangaroo> thats what I see quickly
> > 09:17 < kangaroo> boyd: I would suggest depending on mono.addins 0.3
> > (or pulling it into your tree)
> > 09:17 <@kangaroo> I already de-gnomeififed that for you
> > 09:19 <@kangaroo> boyd: I'll take a look at what gconf would require for us
> > 09:19 <@kangaroo> we might be able to add that dep
> > 09:20 <@kangaroo> ah no
> > 09:20 <@kangaroo> it requires ORBit
> > 09:20 <@kangaroo> which pulls us down a dependncy hell; we wont be
> > supporting that soon
> > 09:21 < boyd> :)
> > 09:21 < boyd> monodevelop has to be using a configuration system,
> > perhaps we could just migrate to use that?
> > 09:21 <@kangaroo> they do their stuff internally iirc
> > 09:21 <@kangaroo> you could take a look
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