Re: [anjuta-devel] Why still keep Scintilla support?

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 09:07:43PM +0200, Sébastien Granjoux wrote:
> To reply to the question in the mail subject, I think the goal of Anjuta is
> to group several programs and allow them to communicate between each other.
>
> These communications are done through quite simple interfaces. The editor is
> not directly accessible by other part (=plugins) of Anjuta. This has allowed
> us to use GtkSourceView without changing the other plugins. I think it's a
> important part of Anjuta. So, I think the main role of Scintilla is to make
> sure that we stay independent of the editor implementation.

Makes sense.

What is a bit strange with Scintilla is that there are implementations
for GTK+, Win32 and Mac OS X. But GTK+ is already cross-platform, with
the different GDK backends. So if you use Scintilla in a GTK+
application, there is a useless toolkit abstraction in Scintilla (but
it's an implementation detail).

The GtkTextView API is consistent with the other GTK+ APIs, it is always
the same conventions across all GObject libraries. On the other hand
Scintilla has a completely different API and coding style. So for a GTK+
application, using GtkTextView makes the code cleaner than using
Scintilla.

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Sébastien