[Haskell-cafe] Re: How to build sourceview depend for gtk2hs?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mar 3, 2009, at 17:04 , Andy Stewart wrote:
> "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> writes:
>> On Mar 3, 2009, at 16:52 , Andy Stewart wrote:
>>> * sourceview     : no
>>> * gtksourceview2 : yes
>>
>>
>> I'm pretty sure you can have only one or the other, not both; as  
>> such you want gtksourceview2 if you
>> have both.
> So i can use SourceView if i have config pass "sourceview" or  
> "gtksourceview2"?
> Can you explain the difference between "sourceview" and
> "gtksourceview2"?


gtksourceview2 is a newer version (2.x vs. 1.x),  They're not 100%  
compatible (API changes) so you have to pick one when building Gtk2hs;  
if they were independent packages as with the C versions it would be  
possible to build both and pick one when building an application.

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