Re: [gedit-list] Port to windows.

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:44 -0600, Steven Zimmer wrote:

> I'm currently taking a 4th year class on open source development, and
> we are required to do a project for the open source community. I'm
> wondering if a port to windows is already underway, if not I would
> like to initiate this myself. My main reason for wanting to do this is
> at work i'm forced to used windows but would like to use gEdit.

Afaik, there is no ongoing port of gedit to windows.
Anyway, most of the required libs are available on windows: gtk+,
gtksourceview for the most part.

What's going to be more tricky is the gnomevfs dependency, which is not
available on windows (I think there was a ported version as part of the
evolution port, but I'm not sure of it). But this could vanish if we
switch to the new GIO library, which is available on windows as part of
glib.

In gedit itself, the only tricky parts should be
 - a few direct X calls, which could probably just be #ifdeffed since
   the functionality they provide doesn't make sense on windows
 - python integration (but it can already be avoided by using
   --disable-python at configure time).

That's all I can say for now I'm afraid, but I think I've said it all.

Regards, 

Steve