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Code::Blocks, Scintilla and Fedora
SharkCZ:
Fedora won't remove C::B if it uses a bundled copy of Scintilla/wxScintilla, but there are some rules that packages must follow - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_libraries and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
If I understand correctly then C::B uses a modified versions of both, effectively using a fork. That's naturally not forbidden (and a reality in many other situations), but can be a bit unfortunate for the whole open-source world. So my question is - can the changes that you made be merged with the original libraries? And also - what is the canonical source for the libraries? Is it the wxWidgets project for wxScintilla (containing a copy of Scintilla)?
MortenMacFly:
--- Quote from: SharkCZ on October 25, 2010, 09:03:47 am ---So my question is - can the changes that you made be merged with the original libraries? And also - what is the canonical source for the libraries? Is it the wxWidgets project for wxScintilla (containing a copy of Scintilla)?
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Well - for wxScintilla - this project is dead as the maintainer does not develop it actively anymore. So naturally there are a lot forks meanwhile to my knowledge, one in wxWidgets itself, one through wxCode and another one in C::B, even CodeLite has one.
For scintilla: Some of our modifications are e.g. based on a patch that was rejected by scintilla maintainers. So we need to stay with the fork. However, we maintain up-stream compatibility by using a quiet up-to-date version on scintilla, usually and marking every change done by C::B with a special tag in the source code. I'm afraid that's all we can do ATM.
Biplab:
I didn't get time to go through the issue. So I can't comment why they don't want to allow us to bundle patched source. But I'd like to mention few points-
1) Fedora is one of the popular Linux Distros. We should try our best to keep C::B listed in Fedora.
2) I read the bug report. Mozilla chardet is also mentioned there. AFAIK, it's not patched heavily.
3) Another possible solution (also mentioned in bug report) we switch to wxScintilla bundled with wx.
We can do item 3 only when we switch to wx-2.9 (pls correct me if I'm wrong) which seems a long way to go.
Jenna:
--- Quote from: Biplab on October 25, 2010, 04:21:20 pm ---I didn't get time to go through the issue. So I can't comment why they don't want to allow us to bundle patched source. But I'd like to mention few points-
1) Fedora is one of the popular Linux Distros. We should try our best to keep C::B listed in Fedora.
2) I read the bug report. Mozilla chardet is also mentioned there. AFAIK, it's not patched heavily.
3) Another possible solution (also mentioned in bug report) we switch to wxScintilla bundled with wx.
We can do item 3 only when we switch to wx-2.9 (pls correct me if I'm wrong) which seems a long way to go.
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Item 3 will break many of our features, because we use patched scintilla and wxscintilla.
Mozilla chardet is not available as library as far as I know and can not be a problem therefore.
Biplab:
--- Quote from: jens on October 25, 2010, 04:39:21 pm ---Mozilla chardet is not available as library as far as I know and can not be a problem therefore.
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You are right. :)
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