[hackers] status of DUIM

[Kosta Welke]

Hi there!

I recently could not resist the Hype anymore and had to try out dylan. 
It seems like a very nice language (from the extended hello-world i 
wrote) and solves many problems and annoyances I recently had in C++.

However, the lack of GUI in linux is simply unacceptable.

According to http://www.opendylan.org/gui.phtml

- opendylan: has outdated GTK+ Bindings. Should be updated to GTK+ 2.x. 
Some work has been done

Question: Is trunk/fundec/sources/gtk the newest version? What exactly 
is broken and how do I find it? Seems like hannes did something about 
gtk 2 about 4 months ago...

- gwydion dylan: needs work on melange, wrappers for GLib, GDK, GTK+, 
GNOME, dylan-like interfaces, and someone needs to implement DUIM.

Questions: Where can I find the unfinished work? Why would we need to 
wrap GLib, GDK? Wouldnt it, as a first step, just suffice to write some 
DUIM wrappers around GTK+? Or does GTK+ expose a lot of these internals?

Also, cant we just use most of the opendylan DUIM code for GTK+?

Sorry if I ask stupid questions. I'd just like some GUI-love for dylan :)

Cheers,

Kosta (without a clue, apparently)