[admin] New project request: cells-gtk

[Kenny Tilton]

Hi. Something amazing just happened. vasilis margioulas left a cells-gtk 
package on my doorstep last night. LLGPL. It was written for Clisp and 
uses the CLisp ffi instead of UFFI, but I think an eager beaver could 
port it to UFFI pretty easily, making it available to other Lisps. As 
for OSes: win32 and linux have been tested. CLisp on Mac OS X does not 
have ffi yet. But if the project gets ported to uffi then it can run 
under other Lisps on Mac OS X and GTK for X. (GTk native for OS X is not 
there yet.)

Vasilis is a computer science teacher and was exploring declarative GUI 
programming (ala Cells) as contrasted with the Gui-builder approach. He 
has gotten cells-gtk to a very polished state, but will not have time 
for a while to extend it. I gather also his needs have been met. Anyway, 
he is putting the project up for adoption and I of course accepted.

But I think it needs its own project. GTk is quite popular it seems, and 
unlike LTk this interface does not run over a socket. I think also 
having it separate means you can list it under "Graphics" in your 
project directory, which may sound silly but I believe that directory 
will be exactly how people find stuff. This will also make it easier to 
find adoptive parents. :)

kenny



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