Re: looks like 'yes'! -- was '[gedit-list] gedit on Windows?'

[John Pye <john pye student unsw edu au>]

According to the site (sorry, didn't paste the homepage URL before), it 
can be installed using the cygwin installer. Which you really should use 
if you're using cygwin, I think.
http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/

I'm not involved in the development of that, so I don't know what 
they're doing with patches. I didn't see any contact details either, 
although presumably there'll be something in the source distro.

Cheers
JP

Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
> > FYI, just saw this page contains 'gedit':
> > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/portslist.txt
> >
> > and this, a screenshot!
> > http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/screenshots/gedit.jpg
> >
> > I'd say the big challenge would be to run it with the native Windows 
> > GTK, rather that through CygwinX / Xming. Also maybe working around 
> > the GNOME-ish parts that aren't available in the Windows GTK.
>
> Does it require the whole cygwin package working ?
>
> My opinion would be for you not to be afraid of providing patches, in 
> the form of replacement objects instead of a mountain of #ifdefs if 
> possible... Or to wait until gtk 2.10 which should make the port 
> easier since it embeds a lot more libraries, one of the only one 
> remaining then would be gconf (gtksv is already ported onto 
> windows)... (but I'm not the maintainer so my opinion is just 
> informative)


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