Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:01 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Elijah Newren wrote:
> 
> > The previous consensus and agreement was that desktop modules could
> > depend upon python bindings found in the bindings release set. 
> > gnome-python-extras isn't part of that set.
> 
> gedit's main widget is gtksourceview, which is not part of the pygtk
> bindings, so it would have been difficult not to depend on
> pygtksourceview

I don't understand how the python gtksourceview bindings are being used
by gedit. Is it used by the plugin system or by a plugin that is
supplied with gedit?

> > A variety of options exist:
> > [...]
> 
> The possibility of creating a pygtksourceview package has been aborded. 
> So, a possible (d) would be to create a “gnome-python-base” which would
> be a subset of the current gnome-python-extra, with only bindings of
> blessed gnome libraries, leaving python-gnome-extra as its current
> status of “experimental” package.

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