Re: php-gtk2 ready for new project?

Hi Seather, The debate about whether PHP-GTK 2 is ready for release turns up roughly every three weeks at present. I'd say whether you go for using PHP-GTK 2 at this stage depends primarily on how much you're relying on those missing features you mentioned. The only missing item I'd call a 'show stopper' right now is GdkAtom, which underlies a fair amount of GTK+ functionality. Most of the rest is either relatively minor or unlikely to affect the stability of the API (I think we discussed everything that was ever likely to get changed now, and nothing did). Apart from that, you might find occasional parameter changes turn up - we'll generally try to replace GTK function parameters such as (string, string_length) with just (string), for example - but I _believe_ we've pretty much completed that kind of task in the areas where functionality already exists. To give you some idea of where we're at, the following is taken from my build logs (under win32). Note that most of the 'unwritten' functions and methods are that way because they rely on something else 'unwritten' deeper in the bowels of GTK+, e.g. around 30 GtkCTree methods will burst into life when GtkCTreeNode is written. ATK: Functions : 77.8% written (14/18) Methods : 89.6% written (43/48) Constructors : 75.0% written (3/4) Property accessors : none found Pango: Functions : 6.7% written (2/30) Methods : 73.6% written (109/148) Constructors : 90.9% written (10/11) Property accessors : 100.0% written (6/6) GDK: Functions : 63.8% written (67/105) Methods : 75.7% written (252/333) Constructors : 80.0% written (20/25) Property accessors : 100.0% written (46/46) GTK: Functions : 59.2% written (90/152) Methods : 84.6% written (1642/1941) Constructors : 98.0% written (147/150) Property accessors : 100.0% written (174/174) Hope that helps, - Steph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seather" <seather@scygro.za.net> To: <php-gtk-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:30 PM Subject: [PHP-GTK] php-gtk2 ready for new project? > Hi there, > > I would just like some thoughts on this from those that have been using > php-gtk for longer than I have (1 week). > > I have to develop a rather complex elaborate modular application for a > specific company (hoping to use it for more) and as I'm most comfortable > with PHP from relatively advanced web development and server cli > scripting, I would really like to do this project in php-gtk. > > However, since we're starting off now from scratch, I would like to > leave all kinds of migration and upgrading and re-development out of the > equation. At least as much as possible, hence I would really like to > rather use GTK2 than GTK1 (I would also like some of the php-gtk2 > features which I am missing at the moment). > > Our projected development time is around the figure of 8 months. Would > it be fine if we started development with gtk2? I do know it is still > unstable and undocumented and such, but it seems to be a better idea > than sticking to GTK1 currently? > > Anyone that have any thoughts on this at all? > > Thank you very much > > -- > PHP-GTK General Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >