[Geany] Scripting language for plug-ins

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:13:21 +0000, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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 ;-)
I'd be fine with that. Especially the idea of only enabling to
build/install it when Lua headers are found is great.

It's up to Jeff now ;-).

Regards,
Enrico

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