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gtksourceview2 is unmaintained, port to gtksourceview3?

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geever:

--- Quote from: apo on October 19, 2018, 01:32:45 pm ---was there any progress with porting Radiant to GTKSourceView3 or even GTKSourceView4? The moment of truth has arrived and our Gnome team wants to remove GTKSourceView2 which has seen its last release in 2010.

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Hi! Porting to newer GTK stuck as it need a OpenGL upgrade as well. However I bundled the necessary GtkSourceview2 files into our code base, so you don't need a package for it. This change might yet only be in master - which is not quite ready for release unfortunately. So I need to backport the change top the 2.5 branch.


--- Quote from: apo on October 19, 2018, 01:32:45 pm ---Alternatively I could probably delay the removal by taking over maintainership of GtkSourceView2 but then in two years it really has to go.

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Thank You! Let's hope I can steal some time from RL to do the necessary changes for a 2.5.1 build that contains gtksourceview so you don't have to take extra work on you.


--- Quote from: apo on October 19, 2018, 01:32:45 pm ---libpng in Debian is pretty much up-to-date (current upstream version is 1.6.35 and Debian has 1.6.34)

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Hmm, reading back my question - and based on the version numbers I mentioned -, I believe I meant to ask about libjpeg, sorry. :)

-geever

apo:
Hi,

I would be fine with an embedded version of GtkSourceView2. Normally this is not good packaging practice but in this case I think it is OK. I doubt there is a great risk of security vulnerabilities.

apo:
Hi,

ok, it seems the removal of gtksourceview2 has been postponed for another release cycle. So there is no need to change anything at the moment. However expect that in one or two years, the library is history and has to be replaced by something.  :-\

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