I had a lot of problems building gtkmm4 on linux, jhbuild alone didn’t cut it, and I had to use meson and ninja. I now need to replace my workstation and I don’t want to go through all that ordeal again.
In addition on windows I had to remove my app from the toolchain.
I worked with QT for years and I have never had to spend so much time on setting up the development tools.
Any prediction how long will it take to have some installers out?
If you want to have packages for Ubuntu, you’ll have to ask Ubuntu. GNOME developers don’t typically package things for downstream distributors—unless, of course, they also happen to be downstream packagers in their day jobs.
If you’re looking for packages for Windows, there are no plans to provide them from upstream.
I don’t understand. I’ve clearly mentioned that gtkmm4 is very recent. Either you should be equipped to know how to tackle issues, if you are planning to work on bleeding edge libraries, or stick to the stable library versions that are shipped as part of your linux distribution.
Any prediction how long will it take to have some installers out?
Depends on your distribution.
You should file downstream bugs in your linux distribution, if that’s important to you. This is not normally required, as ‘New version of X is available’ bugs are filed by bots.