Re: Trying to install GEDIT

From	Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps, comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Trying to install GEDIT
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Date	2018-10-06 02:34 +0000

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On 2018-10-05, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:
>>Hi folks
>>
>>I tried to install the open source package "GEDIT".
>

>>
>>Why a C program will need java/perl/xml/ etc is beyond me.
>
> Modern editors generally do far more than just allow one to edit text.
>
> The description of gedit itself (see its wiki page) should help
> you to understand why a C program needs xml support (and perl to support
> PCRE):

perl is not requiored for PCRE, PCRE is a separate C library - an
off-shoot of the Exim MTA project, not a descendant of perl.

>   "gedit is the default text editor of the GNOME desktop
>    environment and part of the GNOME Core Applications. ...
>    It includes tools for editing source code and structured
>    text such as markup languages."

>>Why the documentation is mandatory? Why do I need all those megabytes of 
>>different languages to compile a C-GTK based editor?

It's because the devs decided to put the docs in the same repo as as the
software.

> See above.  Use the source package distributed by your distribution.

> If you're trying to build on windows, use the Ubuntu WSL, don't
> bother with mingw or cygwin.

Yeah, mingw can be tricky. but most Gnome/GTK libraries are available if
you look hard enough.

-- 
  Notsodium is mined on the banks of denial.

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Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-05 22:00 +0200
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2018-10-05 20:10 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-07 18:02 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2018-10-07 12:31 -0400
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-10-07 17:13 +0000
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-08 02:40 +0000
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-10-05 20:15 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-06 02:34 +0000
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2018-10-06 03:57 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-06 09:45 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2018-10-06 22:13 +1300
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-10-06 16:14 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-10-06 14:53 +0000
        Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-06 19:42 +0200
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT C W Rose <cwr@seckford.org> - 2018-10-06 20:57 +0100
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-10-07 13:48 +0000

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