Re: Re: [Anjuta-devel] Gnome2 diff/merge/cvs tool

[John Palmieri <johnp martianrock com>]

Seems like a small price to pay for such a good tool.  Python 2.2 is
packaged in Debian Woody which means it is most likely an easy install
from most distros (and in fact can be boostraped by jhbuild), Debian
being conservative and all. Pygtk and gnome-python is in reality one
dependency and orbit-python is just the price of using Bonobo and CORBA.

Actualy there has been talk about making python (or some other similar
language) into a standard scripting component of Anjunta 2 and I would
not want to see these plans derailed because of dependancy concerns.  

The point is moot though since Anjuta 2 is so beautifully componentized
that meld could have extra Bonobo code to integrate with Anjuta 2 if and
only if Meld is installed on the users system.  In other words Meld just
becomes another plugin.  If one doesn't want the dependancies they just
don't install Meld.

A simple solution that should satisfy everyone.  Of course I could be
wrong :-)

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J5
   
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 20:24, Norman Jonas wrote:
> I would not like meld to be included into Anjuta 2, because
> it has too many dependencies ( python2.2, orbit-python,
> pygtk, gnome-python ). These are all packages that Anjuta
> 2 as well as the whole GNOME desktop do not depend on
> and I think it is a bad idea to add these dependencies for a
> single ( good looking ) tool. Rather it should be written in
> straight forward C. Meld may be an option, but should not
> be sufficient as the default diff tool for Anjuta 2.
> 
>   Timothee Besset wrote:
> 
>   I've been using meld for a while now. Pretty awesome tool. There are a lot
>   of graphical diff/merge tools I've tried, this is by far the most powerful
>   one.
> 
>   It would be a worthy bonobo component, further integration with Anjuta2
>   for instance would be awesome.
> 
>   TTimo