[Geany] Common SVN repository for plugins

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:00:57 +0000, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:28:31 -0500
> "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hm. To sidestep issues about licensing and also maintainability,
> > *and* to keep the Geany core small, it would seem to me that Geany
> > would benefit from having a plug-in manager that could download and
> > install plug-ins.
> 
> I don't think that fits in the core of Geany, and it would be a lot of
> work. One major show stopper would be that on Linux you can't just
> install a binary plugin (or at least not with a lot of expertise) that
> will work across different distributions, versions of glibc, etc.
There is another problem(nowadays) with installing binaries from the
net: security. On Debian, the package manager uses GPG signatures to
verify you download only the official, unmodified binary packages to
minimise any security risks. A security aware user shouldn't install or
use any binaries which are downloaded from the net without proper
verification.
I'm going to do something similar with the Geany binaries for Windows
in the future. They will probably signed with my certificate to ensure
they weren't modified at any point.

And the alternative would be to compile plugins from source which
raises a couple of new problems:
* compile environment(compiler, linker, ...)
* necessary libraries and their development files (GTK, GLib,
any plugin specific requirements, ...)
* make use of any package manager? Every distribution uses it's own
with it's own package names
* ...

To make a long story short, if anyone feels really bored, please go for
it and write a plugin for a plugin manager of this kind. But something
like this won't be in Geany's core. IMO, this is too complex, too
error-prone. Of course, the advantage would be a nice user experience.


Regards,
Enrico

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