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Re: New egg: gtk-server


From: Mario Domenech Goulart
Subject: Re: New egg: gtk-server
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 19:50:12 +0200

On Wed, 12 May 2021 18:53:42 +0200 Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de> 
wrote:

> The coding jam inspired me to look into GUI eggs again. I found a
> GTK-server [1]_ demo by Felix from 2005 [2]_, turned it into a
> gtk-server egg and ported all bundled examples. It may very well be the
> most advanced (though not the most pleasant) option to use for building
> graphical user interfaces, as it exposes a "textual FFI" to GTK and
> related libraries (such as GDK, Cairo, Poppler, Webkit and more). The
> only prerequisite is a `gtk-server` binary on your system. It took me
> longer to package GTK-server for my system than writing the egg. I still
> plan to look into other libraries for simpler and more fun approaches
> (such as ezd and nuklear).
>
> The documentation and release-info file are at
> <https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/gtk-server> and
> <https://depp.brause.cc/gtk-server/gtk-server.release-info>. Both
> `salmonella` and `test-new-egg` pass.
>
> Vasilij
>
> [1]: http://gtk-server.org/
> [2]: http://gtk-server.org/demo-stdin.scm.txt

Thanks, Vasilij.  Your egg has been added to the coop.

All the best.
Mario
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