Re: [anjuta-devel] goocanvas

[Naba Kumar <naba kumar gmail com>]

Hi Johannes,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
> This isn't needed anymore as we are now in the "Applications" set which
> doesn't limit our dependencies much apart from requiring us to use GNOME
> technologie where possible.
That is nice to know. Then, it should certainly be an external dependency.

> But goocanvas is most certainly used a lot
> among GNOME.
Having it promoted as part of official gnome would clearly help. Also,
I anticipate more Anjuta plugins to start using canvas for graphical
data displays. So, being official dependency helps not to class them
secondary plugins.

> Still having this depencency optional would be nice.
Given class-inheritance diagram is a very useful tool for C++ (for C
and GTK+, it's naturally useless), and also assuming we encourage
other plugins to utilize canvas, making the goocanvas available as
primary dep eventually would make lot of sense (however,
class-inheritance specifically has dep to other non-standard libs, so
it can't still be hard built).

Has any proposal been made for it to be included in GNOME? As I see,
it's fairly well done and mature already. It would be a good time to
think about it.

Thanks.

Regards,
-Naba