AI for lazy people
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I "needed" to backport one  of my  programs which  use Gtk+-2.x  to the
Gtk+-1.2. Why?  Because IRIX  5.3 has  only 1.2  in the  /freeware (and
porting of such  libraries to anything older than the  IRIX 6.5 is very
hard).

Of course I can rewrite the stuff by hand. I can just find the Gtk+ 1.2
and 2.0  programming manuals, find  the differences and try  to rewrite
the stuff call-by-call, function-by-function.


I decided to try the Gemini from Google. Well, 3000+ lines was too much
for the free version. After sending some $$$ to them it actually worked
(to some extend).  There are some bugs with keybindings  (I use Ctrl+F,
Ctrl+A  and a  few others  which probably  interfere with  some default
keybindings) and it coredumps in certain situations with file selection
dialog. Otherwise it works.

I had to  write the Makefile by  hand as the prepared  autotools do not
work  on the  IRIX (I  don't consider  this  a bug  of the  AI as  they
normally don't work in the most of cases).

Actually, after  2-3 hours of  work I have  a working program  I wasn't
able to manage to get in last 20 years... not that bad.

By the way, the Gtk+-1.2 looks really ugly on the IRIX but is fast.


Written  on the  SGI IRIS  Indigo with  the IRIX  5.3 when  testing the
ported program.