gPHPEdit - PHP/HTML/CSS Development Environment for GNOME

I had applied for Savannah project hosting for gPHPEdit around the middle of this month. Since then I have been having a series of deliberations with the Savannah administration folks and continually taking care of Savannah-requirements for gPHPEdit. It might sound trivial but Savannah has very stringent requirements about copyright and license notices inside the files to make the freedom in these software future-proof. After two weeks of emails and minor changes in the code related to the licensing notices the request was approved today. You can see gPHPEdit project on Savannah.

The Savannah hosting account came at a cost. I had to remove the gtkscintilla2 and the scintilla folders from inside the source tar ball. Scintilla is the code editing component of gPHPEdit and gtkscintilla2 is a GTK wrapper for scintilla. gtkscintilla2 is an abandoned project as Scintilla has native GTK support these days. The scintilla code that was included is an older version of scintilla and it would anyway require some work to bring the gPHPEdit code base to support the new scintilla version. The sources of these projects had to be excluded because some of the files under these folders did not have license or copyright notices.

Since it would be difficult to manage the sources coming from multiple repositories I will be setting up another hosting account probably at github and use that as the primary source repository while keeping the Savannah one for managing the project issue queues and support mailing lists. Also all releases will be committed on to the Savannah project repository.

Ultimately I would like to move everything to gphpedit.org but it might not be a wise decision to spend too much time configuring this site until I get full steam with the development and build a vibrant community around the editor. The next few days will be spent on figuring out how to use the Savannah and github systems and to configure the projects on these sites.