[Gikoskos]

I've noticed this as well in all the Gtk apps that I've run through the terminal.

Never having programmed in Gtk, what is the cause of this? Is Gtk broken or are all the programmers using it incorrectly? I've programmed a great deal in WinAPI and stuff like that never happens.

[onli]

No one knows how to use GTK correctly, not even the GTK developers. At least that was the situation in 2014 when subsurface moved from GTK to Qt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0.

[77pt77]

I think this is very common.

There's a bunch of boilerplate code that just gets carried from project to project.

My favourite was when KDE decided to move to cmake. People realized that most m4/autoconf macros were there for no reason and no one actually knew what they checked for let alone how.

[revelation]

You might like this essay:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

[77pt77]

> Sam Leffler's graphics/libtiff is one of the 122 packages on the road to www/firefox, yet the resulting Firefox browser does not render TIFF images

Don't even get me started on the circular dependencies that need to be broken by installing packages with some options disabled. Kind of an awkward bootstrap.

[rleigh]

I added CMake support to libtiff last year. Haven't checked if the ports tree uses it yet.

[ordu]

WinAPI does not print into console warnings about accidental attempt to drop ref-counted object that has dropped already. So how can you know? Maybe it happens with WinAPI all the time silently.