[Geany] Scripting language for plug-ins

[Nick Treleaven]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:42:51 +0200
"Yura Siamashka" <yurand2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/1/9, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>:
> > I haven't written any yet, but I've been meaning to. (Personally
> > it'd be better for me if the Lua plugin was distributed with Geany
> > because then it would get rebuilt automatically each time we change
> > the plugin abi version - but for most users this isn't a problem).

> Lua have very small footprint  (compared to other scripting
> languages). If geany include it like scintilla  it will not gain too
> much fat.
> 
> This will allow to distribute lua plugin within geany and don't add
> more libraries to depend list.

I don't like this idea, it adds extra maintenance, and isn't really
necessary. If the Lua plugin was distributed with Geany, Lua can be an
optional dependency - probably we could disable building of geanylua if
there were no lua headers found when running ./configure.

Distros could then package geany-lua-plugin as a separate package.

Anyway, I'm not sure if everyone wants to do this, maybe not ;-)

Regards,
Nick