gtk interfaces status

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Dear jerry,

> I see this as a nitch tool and its use will grow as people learn how easy it
> is to use.  There is a learning curve of course.

Port some applications into fortran; then, I suspect, you will see
interest take off.

>
> Vincent now has a Python script that is taking the gtk+ .h files and
> generating the Fortran interfaces.  The function count is now up above 4000
> functions and gives pretty much complete access to all of gtk+ and then
> some.  It has not been committed to the repository yet, but will soon.

Have you checked that all is well with other compilers, Intel in
particular.  Which versions of gtk does it work with?
>
> Hats off to Vincent Magnin for doing this. I really think we need to

Indeed - chapeau!

> consider adding an intrinsic module to gfortran (4.7) for this stuff. We

Hmmm! I am not convinced about this.  Why gtk, rather than
iso_varying_string or any other library that you might care to think
of?

Make a big point of it on the gfortran gcc page, the wiki and make
sure that it is available from the same place as the binary downloads.

Cheers

Paul