Am 08.02.2013 02:12, schrieb Matthew Brush:
On 13-02-07 04:09 PM, Thrawn wrote:
Yes, without a maintainer, as soon as it breaks with a new version of Geany I would expect it to be removed from G-P package. The G-P maintainers have done a great job carrying the Lua plugin until now.
From my remembering Nick did the biggest part of it.
I'd be sorry to see it go. It seems to me that Lua scripting has huge potential, mostly overlooked; it can quickly and easily do many of the jobs that would normally be plugins (I've written short scripts to compare open files, edit files as hex, and quickly find+open files in the current project using partial file names). If it were a choice between fixing it and dropping it, I'd probably take up the job myself.
IMO, it'd be silly removing a perfectly functional plugin unless it breaks and no one wants to fix it. I doubt that'll happen anytime soon with both Lua and Geany plugin API being quite stable, and unless the breakage is massive and hard to fix, I'd also be willing to pitch in to keep it working, as other contributors have done in the past.
I'll also take this opportunity to point out the existence of GeanyPy[1], which for me makes more sense since I know Python fairly well and Lua not at all :)
Shouldn't we make it a bit more popular? Would it make it sense to include it maybe into geany-core-disribution? Just thinking.
Cheers, Frank