Hi,
I was thinking it would be useful to have a template directory with all the "boiler-plate" for a Geany plugin under version control to get people started quicker writing a new plugin that could become part of the Geany Plugins project easier. I saw something similar[1] in the GStreamer project.
My ideas was to put in the directory the files required for the build system(s), a generic README template, a GPL2 COPYING, etc, and a src/ dir with a basic demo plugin (maybe from the Geany plugins/ dir?).
What other common files besides these should be in there? AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog Makefile.am NEWS README THANKS TODO wscript_build wscript_configure (are both these Waf files needed?) ../build/foo.m4 (how to include if it's in .. ?) src/foo.c src/Makefile.am configure.ac? (for building before it's in Geany Plugins proper)
What do you guys think? Is it worthwhile? Have I missed any important files?
I was going to follow this up with a tutorial on the Wiki explaining how to check-out the template, describe which files needed to be modified and how to do so, etc. Also it would have some more general notes from HACKING, getting commit access, the cppcheck stuff and so on. This would be a good companion to the plugin howto I think.
I was also thinking about doing a similar template/tutorial for a Vala plugin.
Feedback would be appreciated.
Cheers, Matthew Brush
[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/pwg/html/chapter-bu...