[Geany] Common SVN repository for plugins

[Frank Lanitz]

Hi,

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:10:04 +0100
Frank Lanitz <linux at partysoke.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:00:57 +0000
> Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You have to think about, that there not only Linux-users outside, but
> also users of some strange operationg systems like Windows, AIX,
> Solaris, MacOS, OS/2, BeOS, Zeta, NetBSD, FeeBSD, OpenBSD .... We are
> not using JAVA, Mono or any other bytecode-interpreter language. So
> I'd suppose to distribute plugins in a suitable way, that users are
> able to use package managing system of their distribution like apt or
> yast. 
> 
> But if there will be a big number of Lua plugins or maybe in future
> some written in Python I could imagine to have some kind of plugin
> manager allowing downloading of plugins from a central server. But
> not for plugins written in C. 

I have to revert myself a bit. I could imagine to build up something,
that works like a frontend to wget, configure and make:
Downloading a src-tarball from central server, extracting it and run
the triple to install it. Well... to be honest: I'm not sure and should
be better quiet ;D

Frank
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