Hi Jerzy, this is definitely possible to do. Most of meld was written with really early pygtk-1.99, but over the years most of the good gnome stuff has been moved into pygtk. The biggest remaining hurdle to being pure pygtk is probably the use of GnomeFileEntry and friends.
Stephen. On 4/22/07, Jerzy Jalocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to this list, so I want to say hello to everyone. > > I am not a developer, so I don't really know if the following question > makes any sense. > > I've used meld occasionally under Ubuntu, and now wanted to install it > on another machine which is running Xubuntu. But meld depends on > 'python-gnome2', and gnome is not on my system. So I would have to > install 52 packages (inlcuding gstreamer and other multimedia) in > order to make it run. Since it is an old low-end PC, I won't do this, > and I'll stick with command line diff today. > > Would it be possible for you to change the dependencies to GTK (even > in a distant future), and make meld available to a wider audience? Or > is this just too difficult or too much work, or definitely impossible? > > Anyway, thank you all for your great work. > _______________________________________________ > meld-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list > _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
