Am 29.04.2011 19:12, schrieb Nick Treleaven:
I think this is great. It might be doable to maintain this with Geany's API when ready. This would be a big leap forward for plugin writers, and little/no impact on the existing API.
Will Geany's API ever be ready? I doubt so, especially at this development rate. But this vala bindings are great for sure.
do discuss any further I'd like to point to an email Enrico sent earlier this year onto this list:
http://lists.uvena.de/geany-devel/2011-February/003905.html
Originally Geany wasn't designed/coded to work with GObject. Moving to an plugin interface using this would most likely cause rewriting of a lot of code. However, if really somebody of you like to go this further I suggest to start a new branch where all changes can be tracked in. But before we can discuss about the positive/negativ points I just want to ask who likes to take over this task as a kind of lead engineer and project manager to be the lead here having in mind it will most likely not a 5-minute-task?
What's the outcome here? I saw a lot of technical discussion followed up by my original posting but nobody took over the rule to bring all the idea into synch. Not sure whether I might did miss something.
Just to add my point of view:
- I think this would be very disruptive to both Geany's core and
existing plugins. I also really don't like GObject code in C.
Wasn't the idea to implement the GObject interface one by one, maintaining the current one in the meantime (and a bit after)? You can also always do compatibility magic with cpp or some sort. I don't see it disruptive for plugin writers.
- Would it actually work? Geany is not a shared library, so this
might cause problems for dynamic language bindings. Until this and perhaps other issues are dealt with, we should not start on using GObject IMO. (To prove dynamic bindings would be possible, a minimal binding for the current API could be made).
It works for all other the programs (e.g. gedit) too, doesn't it?
I don't hope you just killed all hope with your mail, we basically already agreed this would be a nice thing to have, no?
Best regards.