[Geany-Users] no Terminal tab in Geany preferences??

[Lex Trotman]

On 1 March 2013 13:54, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 10:27, Colomban Wendling wrote:
>> [...]
>>> hyperair at thinkpwn:~% apt-cache depends geany | grep  vte
>>>   Suggests: libvte9
>>>
>>> That's suggests, not recommends, so it's not dragged in by default.
>>
>> Hum, it probably should become a recommend IMHO, it's an important
>> feature and it used to be available to most people (because libvte9 used
>> to be installed by other apps like gnome-terminal, which now depends on
>> libvte-2.90-9).
>
> Why not just make it a hard dependency that's enabled by building against it at
> build time instead of dlopen()ing it?

IIUC that would mean that Geany binaries could not be run on any
system without libvte9 installed, the user would have to re-compile?
That doesn't sound acceptable to me.

Cheers
Lex

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> Loong Jin
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