now using files from oldgtk3 for bootstrapping

README.adoc

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ it should also work for upcoming _GTK4_.)
 
 https://nim-lang.org/[Nim] is a modern universal programming language.
 
-https://www.gtk.org/[GTK], also known as the _Gimp Tool Kit_ and now sometimes also called _Gnome Tool Kit_, is a Graphical User Interface library.
+https://www.gtk.org/[GTK], also known as the _Gimp Tool Kit_ and now sometimes called _Gnome Tool Kit_, is a Graphical User Interface library.
 
 NOTE: Later we will insert at this location a nice picture of a fancy Nim GTK3 GUI. Such a picture is fine to attract users and indeed is a good motivation.
 But such pictures are no real evidence for the quality of a GUI toolkit -- the concrete example may look nice, while the toolkit
@@ -41,19 +41,28 @@ in the Nim package repository. _Android OS_ is currently not supported by GTK at
 
 While low level Nim bindings for GTK3 are already available since a few years, this one is an attempt to
 provide real high level bindings with full type safety, full _Garbage Collector_ (_GC_) support and an idiomatic
-_Application Programming Interface_ (_API_)
+_Application Programming Interface_ (_API_).
 
-The low level bindings available at https://github.com/ngtk3 where generated with the Nim tool `c2nim` directly from the _C_ header files, are already tested
-with some applications (https://github.com/ngtk3/NEd[NEd Nim Editor], https://github.com/StefanSalewski/nim-chess3[Chess Game])
-and generally work fine. Indeed missing Garbage Collector support is generally not really a problem, as widgets are generally
-put into containers and were automatically deleted together with its parents due to GTK's reference counting.
+Currently there are at least 3 sources of GTK3 bindings for Nim:
 
-Still there can be some demand for really high level bindings -- so this repository tries to provide them.
+* https://github.com/ngtk3
+* https://github.com/StefanSalewski/oldgtk3
+* https://github.com/StefanSalewski/gintro
 
-High level GTK3 bindings, as available for many other programming languages like _Python_, _Ruby_ or _D_ already,
-would have these advantages:
+ngtk3 was the first attempt to provide GTK3 support for Nim. It contains single repositories for all the GTK related libraries and
+is not supported by nimble package manager. It was created from GTK 3.20 headers and is now deprecated.
 
-* full Garbage Collector support -- you should never have to free resources manually
+oldgtk3 is the port of ngtk3 to GTK 3.22 -- joining all libraries and providing nimble support. Some people may still prefer
+using oldgtk3. As it is generated with the Nim tool c2nim directly from the C header files without much manual intervention,
+it should be complete and contain not that much bugs. Missing Garbage Collector support is generally not really a problem, as
+widgets are generally put into containers and were automatically deleted together with its parents due to GTK's reference counting.
+
+Still there can be some demand for really high level bindings -- so this gintro repository tries to provide them.
+
+High level GTK3 bindings, as available for many other programming languages like _C++_, _Python_, _Ruby_ or _D_ already,
+have these advantages:
+
+* full Garbage Collector or Destructor support -- you should never have to free resources manually
 * Widgets are Nim objects, so inheritance and sub-classing can be used
 * full type safety -- no needs for casts or other unsafe and dangerous operations
 
@@ -106,14 +115,14 @@ These basic libraries are already partly tested:
 * Gtk
 
 In best case it should be possible to add more GObject based libraries to this list without larger modifications of the generator source code.
-Unfortunately the bindings for the _cairo_ drawing library provided by {GIR} are only a minimal stub -- later we will have to extend it manually.  
+Unfortunately the bindings for the _cairo_ drawing library provided by {GIR} was only a minimal stub -- we have extend it manually.  
 
 == How to try it out
 
 Of course you will need a working Nim installation with a recent compiler version and you have to ensure that GTK and related libraries are installed on your system. For some Linux
 distributions which provide mainly pre-compiled software you may have to also install some GTK related developer files. 
 
-This package now supports the _Nimble Package Manager_, so ideally a plain `nimble install gintro` should do. But as this package does not
+This package supports the _Nimble Package Manager_, so ideally a plain `nimble install gintro` should do. But as this package does not
 only provide some plain text files, but uses {GIR} database query on your local computer to generate
 binding files exactly matching your system, that does not work currently. We have to download the files, compile and execute
 the `gen.nim` generator program and finally to install the generated bindings modules on your computer as a _nimble package_.
@@ -128,6 +137,13 @@ nimble prepare
 nimble install
 ----
 
+NOTE: Latest version of gintro package uses some files from oldgtk3 package for bootstrapping. We assume that
+users of gintro generally are not interested in low level oldgtk3 package, so we try to download only 3 single files
+from oldgtk3 package. That should work if wget or nimgrab executables are available. If it fails you should
+get a longer error message which may help you to solve the issue. If that should not work for you, you may
+copy the old file gintro.nimble.bak to gintro.nimble before calling `nimble prepare`. That would use files from
+deprecated ngtk3 repository for bootstrapping. 
+
 NOTE: Nimble prepare should run for about 20 seconds, it compiles and executes the generator program `gen.nim`.
 Unfortunately we can not guarantee that the generator command  will be able to really build all the
 desired modules. The built process highly depends on your OS and installed GTK version. For 64 bit Linux systems

gintro.nimble

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skipDirs = @["examples", "tests"]
 
 # Dependencies
 
-requires "nim >= 0.17.0"
+requires "nim >= 0.17.2"
 
 when defined(nimdistros):
   import distros
@@ -33,19 +33,30 @@ proc prep =
   mkDir("ngtk3")
   cd("ngtk3")
 
-  exec("git clone https://github.com/ngtk3/nim-glib")
-  exec("git clone https://github.com/ngtk3/nim-gobject")
-  exec("git clone https://github.com/ngtk3/nim-gir")
-
   cpFile(this / "tests" / "gen.nim", td / wd / "gen.nim")
   cpFile(this / "tests" / "combinatorics.nim", td / wd / "combinatorics.nim")
 
-  cpFile("nim-glib/src/glib.nim", td / wd / "glib.nim")
-  cpFile("nim-gobject/src/gobject.nim", td / wd / "gobject.nim")
-  cpFile("nim-gir/src/gir.nim", td / wd / "gir.nim")
-
   cd(td)
   cd(wd)
+
+  try:
+    exec("wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StefanSalewski/oldgtk3/master/oldgtk3/gobject.nim' -O gobject.nim")
+    exec("wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StefanSalewski/oldgtk3/master/oldgtk3/glib.nim' -O glib.nim")
+    exec("wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StefanSalewski/oldgtk3/master/oldgtk3/gir.nim' -O gir.nim")
+  except:
+    try:
+      exec("nimgrab 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StefanSalewski/oldgtk3/master/oldgtk3/gobject.nim' gobject.nim")
+      exec("nimgrab 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StefanSalewski/oldgtk3/master/oldgtk3/glib.nim' glib.nim")
+      exec("nimgrab 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StefanSalewski/oldgtk3/master/oldgtk3/gir.nim' gir.nim")
+    except:
+      echo "For bootstrapping of gintro package we need the low level files gobject.nim, glib.nim and gir.nim."
+      echo "We take these from package oldgtk3. As most gintro users will not need the whole oldgtk3 package"
+      echo "we tried to only download these 3 single files using wget or nimgrab. But that failed."
+      echo "Ensure that wget or nimgrab are available. wget should be available for Unix like systems."
+      echo "Nimgrab should be available in Nim/tools directory. You may compile it with 'nim c -d:ssl nimgrab.nim'"
+      echo "and put it into your search path"
+      echo "For the unlikely case that you have already full oldgtk3 package installed, we will just try to continue..."
+
   exec("nim c gen.nim")
   mkDir("nim_gi")
   exec(td / wd / "gen")

gintro.nimble.bak

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Package
+
+version       = "0.2.0"
+author        = "Stefan Salewski"
+description = "High level GObject-Introspection based GTK3 bindings"
+license       = "MIT"
+skipDirs = @["examples", "tests"]
+
+# Dependencies
+
+requires "nim >= 0.17.0"
+
+when defined(nimdistros):
+  import distros
+  if detectOs(Ubuntu) or detectOs(Debian):
+    foreignDep "libgtk-3-dev"
+  elif detectOs(Gentoo):
+    foreignDep "gtk+" # can we specify gtk3?
+  #else: we don't know the names for all the other distributions
+  #  foreignDep "openssl"
+
+import ospaths
+
+proc prep =
+  let this = thisDir()
+  let td = getTempDir()
+  cd(td)
+  let wd = "gintrosalewski"
+  if dirExists(wd):
+    quit("gintro: tmp directory already exists!")
+  mkDir(wd)
+  cd(wd)
+  mkDir("ngtk3")
+  cd("ngtk3")
+
+  exec("git clone https://github.com/ngtk3/nim-glib")
+  exec("git clone https://github.com/ngtk3/nim-gobject")
+  exec("git clone https://github.com/ngtk3/nim-gir")
+
+  cpFile(this / "tests" / "gen.nim", td / wd / "gen.nim")
+  cpFile(this / "tests" / "combinatorics.nim", td / wd / "combinatorics.nim")
+
+  cpFile("nim-glib/src/glib.nim", td / wd / "glib.nim")
+  cpFile("nim-gobject/src/gobject.nim", td / wd / "gobject.nim")
+  cpFile("nim-gir/src/gir.nim", td / wd / "gir.nim")
+
+  cd(td)
+  cd(wd)
+  exec("nim c gen.nim")
+  mkDir("nim_gi")
+  exec(td / wd / "gen")
+  let mods = listFiles("nim_gi")
+  for i in mods:
+    let j = i[7 .. ^1]
+    cpFile(i, this / "gintro" / j)
+  cd(td)
+  rmDir(wd) # cleanup
+
+task prepare, "preparing gintro":
+#before install:
+
+  echo "preparing gintro"
+  prep()
+  
+