Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[Mystilleef <mystilleef gmail com>]

On 8/21/05, Jeroen Zwartepoorte <jeroen zwartepoorte gmail com> wrote:
> GtkSourceView is perfectly fine where it is. At the moment it has
> dependencies on libxml2, gtk+ and libgnomeprint. The latter should
> disappear into gtk+ with Ridley.
> 
> GtkSourceView is a very specific, well maintained widget that's
> perfectly fine living outside of gtk+. A developer can use the library
> without needing any extra dependencies (assuming he's already using
> gtk+ & libxml2).
> 
> Jeroen (GtkSourceView developer)

Yes, but isn't the point of the project to reduce external
dependencies? Besides most of the functions in gtksourceview seem like
functions that should be in GTK+ itself.