[oe] Add gtksourceview 2.x and rename the 1.x tree recipe

Ihar Hrachyshka ihar.hrachyshka at gmail.com
Mon May 25 08:29:21 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Elena of Valhalla
<elena.valhalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:14 +0200, Elena Grandi wrote:
>>> GtkSourceView[1] currently maintains a stable 2.x tree and an old stable
>>> 1.x tree for compatibility with older applications[2] and they can be
>>> installed together on a computer.[...]
>> Is there really any need to rename the old one?  It seems like it would
>> be better just to leave the existing gtksourceview alone and add the new
>> one as gtksourceview2 or some such.
>
> no, there is no real need, except for the fact that now it would be
> easy to do so, while in the future it could became problematic as new
> recipes are added

The problem is that some users with overlays in their setups can use
an old name of package externally. If you really don't need to break
such things it's better to leave name as-is.

>
> for my needs adding gtksourceview2 is good enough
>
> --
> Elena ``of Valhalla''
>
> email: elena.valhalla at gmail.com
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