gedit-45.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

Possibly a pre-release version.

[Douglas R. Reno]

It looks like 45.0 is out (there was already a 45.alpha), so I'd say this is probably an officially released package

[Bruce Dubbs]

News in 45.0, 2023-06-23

• User manual: a few improvements.
• Translation updates.

News in 45.alpha, 2023-04-26

gedit now depends on libgedit-gtksourceview instead of GtkSourceView: ​https://github.com/gedit-technology/libgedit-gtksourceview ​https://gedit-technology.net/

Build system:

• Add inline_side_panel_switcher option.
• No longer generate the Vala *.vapi file, rely on the GIR instead.
• Maintenance: don't use deprecated Meson features.

The core of the application:

• Add Ctrl+comma shortcut to open the Preferences dialog.
• Documents Panel: improve how the filenames are ellipsized.
• A few API changes in GeditWindow and GeditTab, see the API reference manual.
• Bump API version to 45.

Plugins:

• Insert Date/Time: add keyboard shortcut.

General:

• Code refactorings, robustness improvements, use more Tepl features, bug fixes, etc.
• Documentation improvements.
• Update Flatpak manifest.
• Translation updates.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit f95f14cd43f5d7e85f8fcb0c5e48ea8af2a1d596

[pierre]

I cannot understand how you could build this: meson.build has:

# Subprojects
if not get_option('buildtype').contains('plain')
  run_command(
    'git', '-C', meson.project_source_root(), 'submodule', 'update', '--init', '--recursive',
    check: true,
  )
endif

Since we pass --buildtype=release, it does not contain plain, and meson tries to run git. But there is no .git directory, so it fails. The exact command is:

/usr/bin/git -C /sources/gedit/gedit-45.0 submodule update --init --recursive

and the error is:

fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /)

[Bruce Dubbs]

Sorry. I had -Dbuildtype=plain in my test script, but forgot to add it to the book.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Hmm, but won't --buildtype=plain produce a completely unoptimized build?

[pierre]

Bruce, the book had --buildtype=release until you changed it yesterday. Maybe you changed it locally and forgot to commit... Anyway, Xi's concern may be solved by:

• keeping --buildtype=release
• adding sed -i s/plain/release/ meson.build

That's what I've done.

If it is ok with you, I'll change the book.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to pierre:

Bruce, the book had --buildtype=release until you changed it yesterday. Maybe you changed it locally and forgot to commit... Anyway, Xi's concern may be solved by:

• keeping --buildtype=release
• adding sed -i s/plain/release/ meson.build

That's what I've done.

If it is ok with you, I'll change the book.

Or maybe we can just keep --buildtype=plain but add -Ddebug=false -Doptimization=3 to emulate --buildtype=release.

[Bruce Dubbs]

I found that I needed -Dbuildtype=plain, not --buildtype=plain, but now I'm not sure that makes a difference.

I do note that the file command gives me with "debug_info, not stripped"

Checking ​https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html, it defines buildtype as:

buildtype debug optimization plain false plain debug true 0 debugoptimized true 2 release false 3 minsize true s

I have not heard of optimization level of 'plain' before. A quick google does not give me anything relevant.

To be consistent with all the other meson instructions in the book, I think we should use the sed and --buildtype=release.

Pierre, do you want to make the change or do you want me to do it?

[pierre]

Done the change at 73780d5928

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to pierre:

Done the change at 73780d5928

Now is git really a "required" dependency? It looks strange to me.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Replying to Xi Ruoyao:

Replying to pierre:

Done the change at 73780d5928

Now is git really a "required" dependency? It looks strange to me.

I don't think so. I'll remove it.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed