I guess a heads up for folk working on D bindings to GTK+:

http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php

Indicates D has bindings to 2.12, 2.14, 2.16, 2.18, 2.20 and 2.22, but not 2.24 and, most problematically, not 3.0.

The link from this page points at: http://www.dsource.org/projects/gtkd. (It is interestingly ironic that this tells Linux users to have the latest GTK+ libraries installed given the data from the previous paragraph ;-)

On the other hand it seems that https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD is the actual home, but I am not sure there is a reference to this on the dsource page.

Being a Debian user I was interested in https://code.google.com/p/d-apt/ but it seems the instructions for using this break since http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files results in a 404.  Also I am assuming it is an oversight that Tango-D2 is packaged but Phobos is not?

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On 04/22/2012 04:51 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> I guess a heads up for folk working on D bindings to GTK+:
>
> http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php
>
> Indicates D has bindings to 2.12, 2.14, 2.16, 2.18, 2.20 and 2.22, but
> not 2.24 and, most problematically, not 3.0.

Git/svn currently binds GTK 2.24.
But 3.0 and up is indeed not supported jet.

> The link from this page points at:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/gtkd. (It is interestingly ironic that
> this tells Linux users to have the latest GTK+ libraries installed given
> the data from the previous paragraph ;-)

Up untill the GTK 3.0 release using GtkD with an newer release didn't cause any problems, i've changed it to latest 2.x release.

> On the other hand it seems that https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD
> is the actual home, but I am not sure there is a reference to this on
> the dsource page.

Both pages are up to date.

> Being a Debian user I was interested in https://code.google.com/p/d-apt/
> but it seems the instructions for using this break since
> http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files results in a 404.  Also I am assuming
> it is an oversight that Tango-D2 is packaged but Phobos is not?
>

While you can't view the directory with a browser, all the needed files are accessible.

And i think Phobos is in the dmd package.

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Mike,

On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 16:32 +0200, Mike Wey wrote:
[...]
> Git/svn currently binds GTK 2.24.
> But 3.0 and up is indeed not supported jet.

OK.  For now I'll stick with PyGObject, and the dreaded gtkmm.

[...]
> Up untill the GTK 3.0 release using GtkD with an newer release didn't cause any problems, i've changed it to latest 2.x release.

Good to know. Might be worth changing the website to say GTK 2.2x is supported rather than 2.22?

[...]
> Both pages are up to date.

Perhaps add some cross-referencing to make it clear the pages are about the same stuff?

[...]
> While you can't view the directory with a browser, all the needed files are accessible.

What is the way of checking  access if not via a browser?  Using the source.list entry:

deb http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files ./

I get the result:

Failed to fetch http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/./Packages  404  Not Found

> And i think Phobos is in the dmd package.

OK, that'll work for me as soon as I can get at the packages with aptitude and approx.

Thanks.

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On 04/22/2012 05:45 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> What is the way of checking  access if not via a browser?  Using the
> source.list entry:
>
> deb http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files ./
>
> I get the result:
>
> Failed to fetch http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/./Packages  404  Not
> Found
>

Odd trying to download http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/./Packages with a browser or wget completes without any errors.

-- 
Mike Wey

Mike,

On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 20:07 +0200, Mike Wey wrote:
[...]
> Odd trying to download http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/./Packages with a browser or wget completes without any errors.

Hummm... here too. Perhaps browser and wget look for Packages and then Packages.txt whereas aptitude/apt-get do not? I note that the Debian repositories have Package.gz not Package.txt, might this be indicative that plain text  should be Packages? This is certainly the filename I use on my personal deb repository.

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On Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 02:51:29 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>
> Being a Debian user I was interested in https://code.google.com/p/d-apt/
> but it seems the instructions for using this break since
> http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files results in a 404.

This is a correct behaviour. If you want to list all files in d-apt use this link:
https://code.google.com/p/d-apt/downloads/list

Otherwise, if you want to include d-apt as an apt server, just add the line (without additional dots):

deb http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files /

at the file:

/etc/apt/sources.list


> Also I am assuming it is an oversight that Tango-D2 is
> packaged but Phobos is not?

This is not correct. As phobos is the standard d library, it's included into the dmd package, so there are both phobos and tango libraries available on d-apt server.
If you install tango package, you'll able to compile this code:

file: test.d
---
import tango.io.Stdout;
import std.stdio;

void main()
{
	Stdout("hello with tango!").newline;
	writeln("hello with phobos!");
}
---
$ dmd `pkg-config --cflags --libs tango` -run test.d


About packages on d-apt. I understand that dmd package can be split into two or more packages (compiler, druntime, phobos library with headers, help, etc.).
This is the initial apt version, and there is a long way to walk.

Best regards,

On Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 18:32:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Mike,
>
> On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 20:07 +0200, Mike Wey wrote:
> [...]
>> Odd trying to download http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/./Packages with a browser or wget completes without any errors.

http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/./Packages
in unix-like system is same than:
http://d-apt.googlecode.com/files/Packages
>
> Hummm... here too. Perhaps browser and wget look for Packages and then
> Packages.txt whereas aptitude/apt-get do not? I note that the Debian
> repositories have Package.gz not Package.txt, might this be indicative
> that plain text  should be Packages? This is certainly the filename I
> use on my personal deb repository.

On d-apt server there are 4 control files:

Packages
   (text plain file containing data about all deb packages)

Packages.gz
   (Packages file compressed)

Release
   (contains several checksums of Packages and Packages.gz files)

Release.gpg
   (Release signed with d-apt key. verifiable with public key on d-apt-keyring)

In an standard apt server there are more control files, but these four are the basic to make the d-apt server to work.

Best regards,

BTW, More info for d-apt server at:
https://code.google.com/p/d-apt/wiki/APT_Repository#APT_Repository_for_D