On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 09:12 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
I realize this is a short post, but I'm not sure what you mean by "exploratory mission". How will you know when the work is done and what will be produced? Perhaps a report? What should it include?
Also, I think we'll need to include some way to preclude all the issues that the GTK folks already found in the their OSX backend for GTK3 that encouraged them to rewrite a more performant one for GTK4. We wouldn't want to redo their work.
You answered your question with your suggestion.
The report is to include all the details that the Gtk project have found in terms of speed problems in macOS as well as advice on Gtk4 vs patching Gtk3.
I suspect that your suggestion is that the discovery should be done by volunteers. But this is serious work, it's desperate work, there's no reason not to do this right and get expertise to provide us with the right information to create the right next step to solve the problem for our mac users.
Rene, I'm paraphrasing the general argument here. If you want to step in and explain the plan in more detail if I've missed anything.
Best Regards, Martin Owens