[Geany] Source folding

[Alexandre Moreira]

Oh, I forgot a few things too:

2006/7/20, Alexandre Moreira <alexandream at gmail.com>:
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> 2006/7/20, Nexu <nexu.jin at gmail.com>:
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> > On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 19:45 +0200, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:51:11 -0300, "Alexandre Moreira"
> > > <alexandream at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > it is so cool, that you all want to extend Geany, but please give us a
> > > little bit time to make it ready for this.
> > >
> > > > scripts in, say, Python or TCL (or even C plugins).
> > > I prefer Python(because so many people like it, there must be
> > > something magic with it) _and_ C plugins.
> > >
> > > But as mentioned earlier, this whole stuff is not really important at
> > > the moment, at least not for me and Nick.
> > > I want to finish the 0.8 release soon(but without hurrying), then
> > > reduce the length of the todo list and finally implement project
> > > management. Then getting it stable, so that 1.0 can be released.
> > >
> > > After that, or while getting 1.0 stable, we should think about a
> > > reasonable plugin concept.
> > >
> > > I really like the idea of plugins, but at the moment it is too early
> > > for it.
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> > Thanks for the answers and responses. I'm looking forward to test the
> > project management functionality.
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> > Personally i think you guys should consider including the mentioned
> > plug-in system with 1.0 release (after everything else on the TODO list
> > is done) so it is a basic part of Geany.
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> I would vote against this. Geany already has a release plan, and I think
> we should stick to it. First of all, it was not the interest of the main
> devs to make it a complex system, at least not on 1.0. Second, it would be
> needed a *LOT* of hooks in the system for it to be acessible for plugins,
> and it is not the kind of re-engeneering I think we need while on 0.8, at
> least not when focusing to 1.0.
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> Also consider D-Bus as a
> > plug-ins interface as this allows more languages to be used to write
> > plug-ins with (any language that D-Bus got bindings for).
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> I never considered this as an option and then, when you mentioned it a
> whole lot of possibilities exploded in my mind. Thanks very much, Nexu, for
> you made me address a lot of stuff I had in mind for my own personal project
> (A game server).
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I ended up thanking Nexu for something but forgot to discuss the meaning of
this idea in Geany context. Don't think D-Bus would be a good way for Geany
to implement it, at least not as long as it strives to be multi-platform.
For all I know D-Bus is still very much binded to the Linux platform (but,
please, correct me if I am wrong).


As far for the magic about Python: because it's really simple to code
> > with as well being mature.
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> Cheers,
> Alexandre Moreira.
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