Hey all,
this topic has been brought up already a couple of times, for example on [1].
What do you think about dropping Waf support in Geany and in the Geany-Plugins project?
While I was defending Waf in Geany, I somewhat changed my mind. Not because I don't like it anymore, but I increasingly see the efforts in maintaining two (to be exactly three for Geany) build systems is too much. Since the make/MSYS build system support seems to get better and better due to Nick's and Dimitar's work on it, I thought about dropping the Waf support. It seems nobody knows it well enough and probably except for a few users nobody is using it. (And obviously I don't do so much anymore and also lost a bit interest in maintaining forever.)
The other thing is that Waf causes often problems for distro packages, especially for the Debian folks [2].
So, I'd go the easy way in this case and just remove Waf. Then we only need to maintain the autotools based build system for non-Windows systems and the make based for Windows.
For Geany-Plugins, we would need to get something working on Windows but maybe we could re-use Geany's make based system for Windows here.
What do you guys think?
[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3460449&gro... [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645190
Regards, Enrico