On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:33:30 +1000 Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 September 2011 01:26, Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > When we upgrade (someday) to 2.16, why not make VTE a compile time > > option only? I can understand why somebody would like to compile Geany > > without vte support, but since all novadays gtk+ terminal emulators are > > based on vte, making it a run-time option seems like overkill to me. It > > was a good thing, several years ago... > > The problem with this is that means that all binary packages now > depend on vte. Of course. However: - when using binary packages, you should be prepared for some extra dependencies - again, all novadays gtk+ terminal emulators are libvte based. > If you might want to compile it out, then you might > not want to install it. Hmmm... Just how many programs have you seen that can be compiled --with-libfoo but started without libfoo? Aside from Geany, I only know of mplayer which can be compiled with win32 dll-s support, but started even if no dll-s are present, for obvious reasons. If you want to install it out, compile it out. > Or there would need to be several binary packages, with and without > VTE compiled in which is more maintenance. No sane package maintainer will bother. When checking the various preferences or something, I found 2 crashes when vte is compiled but not loaded. That kind of hints how many people use Geany with vte compiled but not installed... > With the runtime check VTE does not need to be installed. Indeed. :) Let's hope there aren't any more crashes. Not that anyone will notice them. -- E-gards: Jimmy _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
