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Bug#996609: ITP: gtksourceview5 -- shared libraries for the GTK4 syntax highlighting widget



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Owner: jeremy@bicha.net

Package Name: libgtksourceview-5-0
Version: 5.2.0
Upstream Author: Many GNOME developers
License: LGPL-2.1+
Programming Lang: C

Description: Shared libraries for the GTK4 syntax highlighting widget
 GtkSourceView is a text widget that extends the standard GTK 4 text widget
 GtkTextView. It improves GtkTextView by implementing syntax highlighting and
 other features typical of a source editor.
 .
 This package contains the shared libraries required by applications to use
 this widget.

Other Info
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This library will be maintained by the Debian GNOME team. Packaging is at
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gtksourceview5

gtksourceview5 is for GTK4 apps
gtksourceview4 is for GTK3 apps
gtksourceview3 is an older library for GTK3 apps. GTK3 apps should switch to gtksourceview4 soon
gtksourceview2 was for GTK2 apps and has recently been removed from Debian Unstable.

References
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https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtksourceview/gtksourceview-5.0/porting-guide-3-to-4.html

https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtksourceview/gtksourceview-5.0/porting-guide-4-to-5.html

And since you'll need to port from GTK3 to GTK4 to use gtksourceview5:
https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

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