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

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi,


On 25/08/2014 14:22, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> 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).

Yes, indeed and it causes troubles. Currently, Scintilla is very slow 
due to some changes in recent version of Gtk+.


> 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.

Sure, I agree with that but Anjuta is a special case. I have read a plan 
to make a custom IDE by using various programs communicating through 
DBus insterface. Anjuta is similar except that all parts live in the 
same process and communicate through interface. It's possible to pass a 
pointer on a GtkTextView object but it will make quite difficult to use 
a different plugin.


Regards,

Sébastien