On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:54:35 +0200 Thomas Martitiz s0523936@htw-berlin.de wrote:
Sounds interesting, but a combined release would be very useful for anyone building from source,
You can still do a combined release with that metapackage. That's why
I should have been clearer. When I said release, I was talking about the source tar.gz release, not packages. I understand the meta-package idea, sounds good.
plus it gives packagers more freedom - it seems to me that packaging all plugins together would be easier for the packager.
I can't connect both phrases. More freedom in packaging generally means more work if the freedom wants to be kept. And saving work by putting all plugins into one package surely doesn't extend the freedom of anyone.
I wasn't talking about user's freedom ;-)
I meant more generally about packagers on all different distros, that it would probably be easier for a packager to just make one geany-plugins package, which would be really awkward to maintain without a central geany-plugins source release.
Individual packages are fine though, just wanted to mention that not all distros would want to maintain them.
Regards, Nick