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Package Details: medit 1.2.0-7
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| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/medit.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | medit |
| Description: | GTK+ text editor |
| Upstream URL: | http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/ |
| Licenses: | LGPL2.1 |
| Submitter: | xyproto |
| Maintainer: | PhotonX |
| Last Packager: | PhotonX |
| Votes: | 16 |
| Popularity: | 0.000217 |
| First Submitted: | 2019-03-27 09:21 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2019-03-28 13:03 (UTC) |
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PhotonX commented on 2023-11-18 06:04 (UTC)
@Craft: I actually contacted the developer around 4 or 5 years ago and his advice was to use another editor. Unfortunately, he doesn't intend to continue Medit's development.
Craft commented on 2023-11-17 19:53 (UTC)
Yes, I am also very sorry that the author stopped developing Medit... I've been using it for a very long time, and it's the best text editor in the world. Maybe the author or someone else will take up his continue its development again and set him up for Python3 ?
PhotonX commented on 2023-02-20 10:30 (UTC)
Right, I haven't put into action the thoughts from my previous comment eventually. I guess, it's a good thing to do it now. Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of a move and have no access to my desktop machine right now which has all my AUR stuff. I'll take care of it asap.
xxxxme commented on 2023-02-19 23:47 (UTC)
Unfortunately there's still an indirect dependency on python2 through pygtk.
PhotonX commented on 2022-11-02 09:41 (UTC)
Now that Python2 has been dropped from the repos, I am thinking about removing the python2 dependency. I also noticed that medit-full does have the python2 dependency still, so currently medit and medit-full are redundant.
Any objections?
rival commented on 2020-11-14 18:58 (UTC)
Just in case someone is interested: developer has commented that he could give some help if someone decide to port it to gtk3[1] (maybe then medit could go back to official repositories?). Best regards.
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/mooedit/discussion/571682/thread/87dbc94e/#2a00
PhotonX commented on 2020-04-24 11:37 (UTC) (edited on 2020-04-24 11:40 (UTC) by PhotonX)
I fear, no patch will come, the development is dead, the current release is 6 years old. I contacted the developer and he advised me to switch to a different editor. pygtk currently has 371 dependencies, so I don't see a reason to be an early adopter of "pygtk-lessness". A "medit-minimal" package without the pygtk dependency surely has its pros, but the the current medit package offering the integrated terminal feature also has its selling point, right?
What about making pygtk and python2 an optdepend, actually? Is it possible to recognize if it is installed and set the configure options accordingly?
severach commented on 2020-04-24 09:06 (UTC) (edited on 2020-04-24 09:09 (UTC) by severach)
It's pygtk I want to get rid of. I build enough AUR package without building a junk package that the editor doesn't need. python2 is still needed for many things but when that heads to the AUR then it'l be two junk packages. No need to edit the PKGBUILD. I'll just maintain my own until a python3 patch comes along.
PhotonX commented on 2020-04-24 07:51 (UTC)
@severach: I did as you proposed but unfortunately the integrated terminal functionality (not the Python console but just the regular bash terminal) dies as well when compiling without Python. I am using this integrated terminal myself and wouldn't like to loose it... I am sure, python2 will be available from AUR and, since medit is an AUR package itself, I don't see big harm in relying on other AUR packages. What do you think?
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