Hello. Attached you will find an ebuild for the GTK+ library GtkSourceView, which is a drop-in replacement for GtkTextView, but designed for source code. I would suggest the category x11-libs.
Created attachment 12304 [details] Ebuild for GtkSourceView 0.2.1
i consider it part of the gnome-2.3 development cycle, no need to get it in fast. The ebuild should use the gnome2 eclass btw. And there is a newer version available.
It's not clear to me that this should be use the gnome2 eclass. If I'm not mistaken, that would pull in all sorts of gnome dependencies? GtkSourceView does not necessarily have those dependencies (it can build without them, as my ebuild shows). Maybe I don't understand the gnome2 eclass, but if I'm right, I'd be very interested indeed in making sure that GtkSourceView can be installed without GNOME (there are people that use it outside of GNOME).
no, the gnome2 eclass name is a little confusing (we might do something about that in the future). But it depends on nothing at this time if you glance over the script.
gtksourceview is in app-text/gtksourceview, thanks to bcowan who committed it on the 7th of June.
this is exactly what happens when devs just start randomly adding ebuilds. yes it is added, the ebuild couldve been much smoother and the package is already unmaintained and outdated by a few versions. Adding is also accepting maintainership bcowan (in this case). But i guess this should go to the gnome herd, since its part of the upcoming gnome desktop release. That is the reason why i didn't move it in (i didnt know about this add), vecause there is no use having it the tree at this time and maintaining it with the rest of the 2.4 packages i have is much easier. On a last note, the category is questionable .. its not a text related application, it's an x lib. It should go to x11-libs . I'm not very happy with all this.
Your reservations are correct, foser, that the ebuild could be better (mainly, gnome2 eclass use, right?) and that the category could be better. But, there is at least some reason not to use it as part of GNOME 2.4. Other packages could be using it already, no? I know that recent versions of Beaver (app-editors/beaver) depend on gtksourceview (and have since I submitted the first ebuild -- I would have also submitted new ebuilds of Beaver once this went in). I know there are some other projects that are doing so as well (or are most of them part of GNOME 2.4?).
