Re: gnome2 port?

[jeroen <jeroen xs4all nl>]

On 30 Aug 2001, Dave Camp wrote:

> JP and I have been throwing around the idea of moving development of
> gIDE to the gnome2 platform.  The idea is that the current gIDE release
> "schedule" has 1.0 being released sometime after gnome2 is out.  So the
> question is when we want to do the port.
> 
> Some benefits of porting now include:
> 
> * Less effort - the longer we spend waiting to port to 2.0, the more
> code will be developed that needs porting.
> 
> * Helping the gnome2 effort by uncovering bugs.
> 
> * The ability to develop against the nice gnome2 APIs.
> 
> * We get to play with gnome2
> 
> The drawbacks of the porting are:
> 
> * We lose some time on the porting that we could be implementing
> features and fixing bugs (note however that we'll lose more time at this
> point the longer we wait).  The biggest problems I see will be scintilla
> and possibly the upcoming GdlDock (but possibly not).
> 
> * We have to deal with an immature platform.  A port to gnome2 would
> likely require us to debug some of the gnome2 libraries themselves.
> 
> * We have to move from ETree to GtkTree, at least until gal is ported to
> gnome2
> 
> * Most importantly, we raise the difficulty level of contributing to
> gide.  A full gnome2 tree takes awhile to build, and isn't the easiest
> thing in the world.
> 
> The last point is the major one.  What is everone's opinion on this? 
> I'm all for a gnome2 port of gIDE, but I don't want to ostracize our
> contributors.

Cool idea, but as probably most of the people contributing to gIDE, i've
never built gnome2 before, so i'm gonna need some help with this.

Why do you think scintilla and GdlDock will be a problem?

Jeroen