[Geany] Common SVN repository for plugins

[John Gabriele]

On Jan 5, 2008 1:41 PM, Frank Lanitz <linux at partysoke.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:10:04 +0100
> Frank Lanitz <linux at partysoke.de> also wrote:
>
> >
> > 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

I think, Frank, that in your previous post you hit the nail on the
head. Users, in general, will probably not want to write their Geany
plug-ins in C. And plug-ins written in a HLL like Lua are easily
distributed among different platforms.

So, if the Lua plug-in came standard with Geany, it would probably be
good for Geany to provide some central archive of Lua plug-ins. But,
at this point (without having the Lua plug-in in the core), if users
are writing plug-ins in Lua, maybe they could let Jeff know -- and if
the number of them hits some critical mass, Jeff might even start his
own archive. ;)

---John