Is there a specialist GtkD mailing list?
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On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 10:21:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Is there a specialist GtkD mailing list?

http://forum.gtkd.org/groups/GtkD/

On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 10:33 +0000, John Colvin wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 10:21:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Is there a specialist GtkD mailing list?
> 
> http://forum.gtkd.org/groups/GtkD/

But that's a forum not a mailing list.

(I will avoid saying "forums are evil" because I know some people like them, they just do not fit into my workflow.)

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On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 10:40:12 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 10:33 +0000, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 10:21:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> > Is there a specialist GtkD mailing list?
>> 
>> http://forum.gtkd.org/groups/GtkD/
>
> But that's a forum not a mailing list.
>
> (I will avoid saying "forums are evil" because I know some people like
> them, they just do not fit into my workflow.)

I assumed by "mailing list" you meant "mailing list / forum / newsgroup / golden font of topical chatter"

I get that you have a workflow, but surely if you need some information it's not too hard to use a forum every so often?

On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 10:40:12 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 10:33 +0000, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 10:21:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> > Is there a specialist GtkD mailing list?
>> 
>> http://forum.gtkd.org/groups/GtkD/
>
> But that's a forum not a mailing list.
>
> (I will avoid saying "forums are evil" because I know some people like
> them, they just do not fit into my workflow.)

See footer:
This forum is powered by VibeNews and can also be accessed using a news reader pointed to nntp://forum.gtkd.org/.

On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 10:44 +0000, John Colvin wrote:
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> I assumed by "mailing list" you meant "mailing list / forum / newsgroup / golden font of topical chatter"

Or whatever  :-)

> I get that you have a workflow, but surely if you need some information it's not too hard to use a forum every so often?

It depends on whether the forum is needed to start a thread but subsequent contributions to a thread are emailed.

The Gradle folk switched from a perfectly good email list to a shiny new, cloudy, cool kids, webby forum which has no capability of email (in a cloudy, webby, cool place who needs that ancient technology called email?). The Gradle developers have the approach "use the forum or do not get community support". So I stopped contributing to the Gradle community.

If the GtkD forum is needed to initiate a thread so be it, but unless I get emails of the contributions to the created thread, the forum is worse than useless to me.

Forums are fine if you are only interested in one or two communities, once you get beyond 10 forums are unworkable. At least for me.

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On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 11:28 +0000, Tourist wrote:
[…]
> See footer:
> This forum is powered by VibeNews and can also be accessed using
> a news reader pointed to nntp://forum.gtkd.org/.

I had missed that, but even then NNTP is not email delivered, and email injected: unless there is a gateway that handles this.

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Isn't mailman the said nntp gateway?

On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 10:21:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Is there a specialist GtkD mailing list?

I'm using gtkd quite intensively, but mostly the gtk, cairo, pango, and limited gdk parts. What are you up to?

On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:31 +0000, Steve Teale wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 10:21:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Is there a specialist GtkD mailing list?
> 
> I'm using gtkd quite intensively, but mostly the gtk, cairo, pango, and limited gdk parts. What are you up to?

The project of the moment involves Glade, Gtk, and Pango, but with a heavy dose of Fontconfig because Pango makes a whole mass of assumptions that are unacceptable for the purpose of this project.

The C++ version shows how weird C++ gets. The Python version shows how easy Python is for the same task assuming ctypes (CFFI is not yet up to the task). I am starting a D version just to see if it can do the needful – my expectation is that it will trounce the C++ version, the question is how the Python and D versions compare.

Basically it is a font browsing system, hence the title GFontBrowser.

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