[Geany-devel] Scintilla update?

[Matthew Brush]

On 11-10-18 04:16 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Hey,
>
> What about updating our Scintilla copy?  There is at least 2 fixes that
> would be particularly interesting to have:
>
> * C++ lexer fixed a bug with raw strings being recognised too easily.
> Bug #3388122. [1], [2]
> * On recent GTK+ 2.x versions when using Cairo, bug fixed where wrong
> colours were drawn. [3]
>

Plus GTK+ 3 support :)

> So, have you anything against an update to Scintilla 2.29?
>

My only concern is the effects of switching to only supporting Cairo for 
the drawing backend.  Will this leave any users unable to run Geany?

Otherwise, I say we roll the dice and see what the new set of bugs ends 
up being :)

Cheers,
Matthew Brush