Re: Is PHP-GTK dead ?

Le 20/11/2012 14:52, Gianluca Faieta a écrit :

Bernard, On Tuesday 20 November 2012 11:05:02 Bernard Fouché wrote:

we were trying to install some php-gtk app on a Fedora 17 system (running PHP 5.4.7) but php-gtk 2 doesn't compile with php 5.4, with have to backtrack to php 5.3 .

AFAIK, it correctly builds with PHP 5.4. I've built php-gtk against PHP 5.4.5 a few months ago on windows (https://github.com/gfaieta/phpgtk-build). I suspect linux build should be more straightforward; maybe you should try the latest sources.

Following my message, I received an email from Timothy Warren explaining the same thing. I downloaded the .tgz from https://github.com/php/php-gtk-src and it works! Now it seems that there are a few people continuing development but who manages the project's coordination if there is such a person?

No more development activity for 18 months (at least no visible activity), no news for more than 2 years, a project that gets disconnected from the PHP roadmap, 4 messages in php-gtk-general in 2012, it seems that we have to also abandon the ship asap and rebuild our app with some other solution :-(

php-gtk is not abandoned; IMHO it only needs more visibility (and more contributors). I currently maintain 3 php-gtk applications on Windows and the customer is planning 2 more. Hope this helps. Gianluca

This is the least that can be said regarding visibility! This is what I bumped into while looking for solutions: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-17-php-5-3-downgrade-4175413875/ . When googling for "php-gtk", the first link is http://gtk.php.net/ which says nothing about github nor about any further development. Googling "github php-gtk" points to different git repo, how one can knows about which is the correct repo? Or 'a' correct repo? So it's unclear if there is still a project leader (Elizabeth Smith? You? Someone else?) even if it appears that there are still a few persons investing time in the project. This situation makes me think than continuing to use php-gtk for our small (but important) app is a risk and we must move on to some other solution: enthusiasm about php-gtk seems to have faded away and this is usually the first step toward a complete stop sooner or later. Anyway many thanks to you, Timothy and Elizabeth!

    Bernard