[R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ support (or rather lack thereof)

[Michael Lawrence]

If we have working 2.24.17 binaries, let's just use them. GTK+ was already
super mature by that point; it's unlikely that many improvements/fixes were
made. I'll start looking into RGtk3. Actually, I started that like 8 years
ago.

Michael

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 9:43 AM Kevin Ushey <kevinushey using gmail.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth, Homebrew and macports both have scripts for
> installing GTK+ from sources, so presumedly those could be cribbed
> into a standalone shell script for a build if desired:
>
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gtk+.rb
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/gnome/gtk2/Portfile
>
> Would that be worth exploring? I'd be willing to try and put something
> together if so.
>
> Also -- is the intention to stick with the latest patch release of the
> GTK+ 2.x series, or try to upgrade to GTK+ 3.x? (I suspect that
> GTK+-using packages would likely need to adapt to changes in GTK+ 3.x)
>
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 6:03 PM Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urbanek using r-project.org> wrote:
> >
> > We have a fairly complete coverage of packages for R 4.0.0, but one
> exception is GTK+ (and thus RGtk2 and its dependencies). It seems that GTK+
> has been abandoned several years ago, the documented macOS build doesn't
> work and there are no released binaries. To make things worse, Gnome has
> been switching from autoconf to custom build systems that are also broken
> (quite amazing - the build fails with an error in the build system's
> headers including Python headers...), so the path of building our own
> release from scratch is also not realistic anymore (we used to build GTK+
> for X11 when it was still possible).
> >
> > Hence this is a call to the R community to see if anyone actually cares.
> And if so, if there is any known source or path to macOS binaries (script
> to build it is fine, too). Unlike regular rules, we would allow dynamic
> linking as we have granted that exception to GTK+ before, but it has to be
> compatible with the native system. As a last resort, we could also re-use
> out GTK+ 2.24.17 binaries from Snow Leopard, but those are considerably
> old, so I'd prefer not to do that. Comments are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Simon
> >
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