Re: [Beaver-devel] Release Tarball

[Leslie Polzer]

On Mon, 26 May 2003 19:26:19 -0400
Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:

> Leslie Polzer wrote:
> > Should we include GtkSourceView in it?
> 
> My gut reaction is no; it's a seperate library.
Seeing that it's about 2.5M I agree with you.
 
> Although, it's a reasonable thing to do.  I do have misgivings about the 
> gnome-friendliness of GtkSourceView's developers;
I feel this lib is not the right place for any GNOME stuff.

> I think one of them also works on GEdit.
Well, do you think this implies some kind of GNOME bias?

>  I heard they plan to add support for gnome-print 
> (for what purpose, I do not know).  Now, gnome-print isn't terrible, 
> since it's a fringe GNOME library that seems to only depend on GTK 
> libraries.  And presumably, it'll be optional (or we can provide a patch 
> to make it optional).  But, my point is that if the developers do 
> something we don't like, it would be an option to fork gtksourceview and 
> bundle it with us.  I just don't think we need to take such drastic 
> steps yet (it would be nontrivial effort without much reward).
Fully agreed.

Leslie