Hi, On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:49:49PM +0200, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list wrote: […] > If Arch Linux does not contain a gtkmm4 package, it's more difficult for you > to test it. You will have to build some packages yourself, either from > tarballs or from the git repositories. Building from tarballs is easier than > building from the git repos.
It may be even simpler to use the AUR[1], especially with a AUR helper[2] that will guide you through the dependencies. gtkmm4 is available in there[3], so with your helper of choice you may run a command as simple as: % yay -S gtkmm4 Then it will ask you to review the recipes and will invoke makepkg and pacman for you, so that you get proper packages in the end. […] > Should you wait until an gtkmm4 package is available in Arch Linux? I don't > know. You can probably ask on some Arch Linux mailing list when that may > happen. I once asked when it can be expected on Ubuntu Linux. The answer I > got was that, with very few exceptions, a subroutine library is included in > Ubuntu only if it is used by an application that's included in Ubuntu. I > don't know if Arch Linux has the same policy. […] The policy is mostly when a maintainer wants to maintain a given package, for instance gtk4 was already present before any program depended on it. You can express your interest for a given package by voting for it in the AUR, that requires an account there. And it will definitely have more weight once you do publish a software based on gtkmm4. :) I hope this was helpful to you, Gabriela, if not you should get in touch with ArchLinux communities. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/ [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtkmm4 -- Emmanuel Gil Peyrot
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